St Denys
Osbournby
Lincolnshire
TF 03 NE ASWARBY AND SWARBY MAIN STREET (South side) 7/11 Parish Church of St. 1.2.67 Denys, (formerly listed as St Denis' Church) G.V. I Parish church, C12, C14, C15, Chancel 1849 by H.E. Kendall, restored 1850 by Edward Blore.
Architectural Features
C14 south aisle with stepped and gabled buttresses, plain parapet and lead roof.
The nave has an embattled parapet and a clerestorey with 6 two light C15 windows having cusped heads to the lights and hollow chamfered 4 centred arched surrounds.
C19 chancel has gabled buttresses, plain parapet and pairs of C14 style windows with flowing tracery.
In the south wall of the nave are 2 C19 2 light windows in C14 style matching those of the chancel.
Beyond to the west is a C16 3 light window with panel traceried head, 4 centred arches to the lights and a hollow chamfered surround.
The fine inner doorway is late C12 with engaged triple angle shafts having stiff leaf and a single palmette capitals.
Interior: 4 bay C14 nave arcade, filleted quatrefoil piers with with annular capitals and double wave moulded arches with hollow chamfered hoods.
Late C14 tower arch with engaged octagonal responds and capitals, double chamfered arched head.
Tall C15 chancel arch with narrow roll moulded reveals and double chamfered head.
It rests on C15 corbels with grotesque masks and capitals.
The south aisle roof is also C19, but there is a C14 piscina in the south wall with cusped ogee head and to the north an ogee headed aumbry.
At the west end of the aisle in the south wall is a single surviving bay of C12 corbel table of a looped pattern.
Stained glass east window of scenes from the Life of Christ in memory of Sir Thomas Whichcote, 7th.
The east window shows scenes from the Life of Christ. The oak altar rails date from the early 18th century.
Early C18 octagonal softwood pulpit with bolection moulded raised and fielded panel sides and fluted pilasters supporting a moulded cornice.
There are 3 funeral hatchments to members of the Whichcote family, 2 in the nave and one in the north aisle.Monuments: In the nave is a granite monument to George Bass, discoverer of the Bass Strait, who was born in the parish and was baptised in this church in 1771.