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St Osmond

St Osmond

Melbury Osmond

Dorset

C15 west tower, much rebuilt, nave and chancel rebuilt at cost of Mrs S Strangways Homer in 1745 (tablet in chancel).

C15C17FONTMONUMENTMEDIEVAL

Architectural Features

C15

Interior: Tower arch with 2 orders of responds and a hollow chamfer between, C15.

MEDIEVALFONT

Fittings: Font, plain stone bowl set into tower responds, medieval.

MONUMENT

Wall-monuments and tablets, to Mrs Homer in chancel recording the 1745 rebuilding.

C17

Chest: in tower with enriched top rail and panelled front, inscribed on lid "Ex dono Gregoni Hoopper, 1697". (RCHM. Dorset I, p.159(1).