Listed Building: PARISH CHURCH OF ST OSMUND (105771)

EVERSHOT ST 5704 FORE STREET (North side) 7/24 Parish Church of St Osmund 11.11.66 GV II* Parish Church. C12 chancel-arch reset, and tower-arch. C15 north arcade, and tower rebuilt. Church restored and largely rebuilt in 1852-3, and in 1864 by R H Short, when chancel, nave, north aisle and upper part of the tower were rebuilt. Ham stone plinth, coursed dressed stone walls with ashlar Ham stone quoins. Tiled roofs, with stone gable-copings and C19 crosses at apices. West tower, 3 stages, diagonal buttresses and bell-chamber are C19. West doorway with moulded jambs, depressed-arch head, and label stopped, C19. Panel-tracery window over, C19. Bell-stage windows with stone tracery, C15 reset. Stair-turret. C15, with C19 top and spirelet. Chancel, C19, diagonal buttresses with set-offs, gargoyles, pinnacles and crocketed finials, stone parapet with blind panel tracery above a fleuron cornice. East window of 3 lights, with ogee trefoil cusping, supermullions, and quatrefoil in roundel over centre light. Ogival crocketed label with foliage boss. North and south windows are of 3 lights, with panel tracery over, C19. North and south aisles overlap the west tower, 4 bays, 3-light trefoil-cusped windows with panel tracery over, and quatrefoil in roundel at centre. South doorway into south aisle with moulded jambs having fleurons. Inscription is carved stone letters painted: This is None Other but y House of God and this the Gate of Heaven". Corbelled-out stone canopy, gabled and with stone cross at apex. North aisle: C19, with windows similar to south aisle. Interior: Chancel-arch, C12, reset in north aisle entrance to organ chamber, shafted responds have tall scallop capitals, pointed arch over. Tower-arch, C12, plain jambs and chamfered imposts, pointed arch of 2 chamfered orders with sunk quadrant between. Nave: 3 bays with pointed arches springing from shafted piers and round capitals, north arcade, C15; south arcade C19. Roofs: Nave, collar-truss roof with 4-centred arch-bracing carried on carved angel-corbels. King-posts above the collar. Chancel-roof of same design, though with ornamental wall-plate. Mid C19. Fittings: font: stone round bowl with moulded band and convex into the cylindrical stem and hollow-chamfered base, C13. Piscina, in south aisle, C15 reset. Brass, reset in chancel to William (Grey), Rector, 1524-5. Latin inscription and figure of priest in mass-vestments holding chalice and wafer. Seating: nave and tower, 2 coffin-stools with turned legs, early C18. Loose in vestry: stone capital with carved figure of man with key (? St Peter), late C12. Communion rails, gilded with spiral posts and foliage under the rail, C19. Reredos of 1880. (RCHM. Dorset, p.108 (1)) Listing NGR: ST5724904500

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