Parish Church of St Osmond
PARISH CHURCH OF ST OSMOND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1119242
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Osmond
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST OSMOND
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1119242
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Osmond
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST OSMOND
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST OSMOND
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Melbury Osmond
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 57400 07832
Details
MELBURY OSMOND ST 5707 MELBURY OSMOND VILLAGE 8/106 Parish Church of St Osmond 11.11.66 GV I Parish Church. C15 west tower, much rebuilt, nave and chancel rebuilt at cost of Mrs S Strangways Homer in 1745 (tablet in chancel). C19 refenestration in chancel. Rubble-stone walls, ashlar-faced on south side. Slate roofs. West tower: of 3 stages, with strings, classical cornice, embattled parapet and crocketed finials, (refashioning of C18). West doorway has moulded jambs and depressed-arch head. Plank door. Top stage on west side has an openwork quatrefoil in roundel, C18. South side has a roundel to ground stage, second stage has a 2-light window with Y-tracery, 3rd stage has a clock-face. Nave, 3 windows wide, with a cornice and embattled parapet. The windows are of 2-lights with central stone mullion into Y tracery head, and are round-headed. South doorway at centre (blocked) has a Gibbs surround, keyed lintel and moulded cornice. Over the doorway is an oculus with a Gibbs surround. Chancel: south wall has a window of 2 trefoiled lights, with a trefoil in spherical triangle in the head. Label and head stops. Pointed-arch doorway and plank door. East window of 3 lights each trefoiled, with quatrefoils and trefoils in the head. Entrance through west tower door. Interior: Tower arch with 2 orders of responds and a hollow chamfer between, C15. Chancel-arch, with hollow-and-nave jamb mouldings and a wide 2-centred arch, c.C18. Roofs: nave has flat wooden ceiling with ribbed compartments, C20. Chancel has a cambered compartmented ceiling. Fittings: Font, plain stone bowl set into tower responds, medieval. Sculpture: fragment of an animal lying flat, trapped in interlacing foliage, c.C10, reset in chancel N. Wall. Wall-monuments and tablets, to Mrs Homer in chancel recording the 1745 rebuilding. Nave has 4 marble wall tablets to John Perkins, 1791; Perkins, 1812; Perkins, 1827; Sarah Perkins, 1834. Chest: in tower with enriched top rail and panelled front, inscribed on lid "Ex dono Gregoni Hoopper, 1697". (RCHM. Dorset I, p.159(1). Rev J C Townsend, Melbury Osmond, Its Church and People (church guide)).
Listing NGR: ST5740207832
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105854
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952), 159
Townsend, Reverend J C, Melbury Osmond Its Church and People, ()
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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