St Osmond

the C15, largely rebuilt in the mid-C19 by Robert H Shout of Sherborne.

EXTERIOR: west tower is in three stages, the lowest two mainly dating from the C15

The bell-stage windows with stone tracery, are reset C15 work.

The stair-turret is C15, with a mid-C19 top and spirelet.

it has diagonal buttresses with set-offs, gargoyles, pinnacles and crocketed finials, and a stone parapet with blind panel tracery above a fleuron cornice.

Above is an inscription of carved stone, with the letters painted, which reads: ‘This is None Other but y House of God and this the Gate of Heaven’.

INTERIOR: the C12 chancel arch is reset in the north aisle at the entrance to the organ chamber

The C12 tower-arch has plain jambs and chamfered imposts, with a two-centred arch of two chamfered orders with a sunk quadrant between.

the arcades are of pointed arches springing from shafted piers and round capitals, the north arcade dating from the C15, and the south arcade, designed to match, from the C19.

The nave has a collar-truss roof with four-centred arch-bracing carried on carved angel-corbels

PRINCIPAL FITTINGS: the FONT is a C13 round, stone bowl with a moulded band and convex into the cylindrical stem and hollow-chamfered base.

The PISCINA, reset in the south aisle, dates from the C15

Reset in the chancel is a BRASS to William (Grey), who was Rector, 1524-5

it carries a Latin inscription and depicts the figure of priest in mass-vestments holding a chalice and wafer.

The polygonal stone PULPIT is carved with traceried blind arcading and has a moulded base and top

it retains its brass candleholders.

The oak LECTERN has attached brass candleholders with twisted stems.

The congregational SEATING (which survives except in the south aisle) consists of pews of oak with rectangular ends, which are carved with small roundels with varying motifs.

The oak CHOIR STALLS, which have carved details, retain their brass candle holders.

The patterned GLASS in the aisles is a single, uniform scheme of diamond panes with repeating yellow floral motifs and brightly-coloured foliate margin glazing.

The WAR MEMORIAL takes the form of a marble plaque bearing a regimental crest and inscribed with the names of the Fallen from the First World War (12 in total), together with the inscriptions: IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS / PARISH OR ASSOCIATED THEREWITH / WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES IN / THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY / 1914-1918 and ERECTED BY PARISHIONERS AND FRIENDS.

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register.