- Old St Cuthbert's Church, Oborne
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St Cuthbert's Church 
Location: Oborne, Dorset, England Coordinates: 50°57′32″N 2°29′38″W / 50.95889°N 2.49389°WCoordinates: 50°57′32″N 2°29′38″W / 50.95889°N 2.49389°W Built: 1533 Listed Building – Grade II* Official name: Old Parish Church of St Cuthbert Designated: 31 July 1961[1] Reference #: 105563 
Location of St Cuthbert's Church in DorsetThe Old St Cuthbert's Church in Oborne, Dorset, England was built in 1533. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building[1] and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[2] It was declared redundant on 18 December 1973, and was vested in the Trust on 23 July 1975.[3]
Only the chancel remains of St Cuthbert's Church, which would have been one of the last to be built before the Reformation, following the demolition of the nave in the 1860s.[2] The neglected chancel was restored in the 1930s, when a new incumbent began to restore it, taking advice from A. R. Powys (secretary of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings) who was also responsible for the restoration of St Andrew's Church at Winterborne Tomson.[4]
The parish of Oborne had been given to Sherborne Abbey by the Saxon King Edgar in the 10th century and it remained a chapel of ease to the abbey until the Dissolution in 1539.[5]
The interior includes mediaeval slip tiles and communion rails, pulpit and monuments from the 17th century. The pillar piscina and font were brought to St Cuthbert's from North Wootton.[2] Above the lintels of windows on the east and north sides are inscriptions entreating prayers for the good standing of Abbot John Myer (1533) and Sacristan John Dunster of Sherborne.[5]
A new parish church, designed by William Slater, was built on a fresh site in the village and consecrated in 1862.[6]
See also
- List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in South West England
References
- ^ a b "Old Parish Church of St Cuthbert". Images of England. English Heritage. http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=105563. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
- ^ a b c St Cuthbert Old Chancel, Oborne, Dorset, Churches Conservation Trust, http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches/Completelistofchurches/St-Cuthbert-Old-Chancel-Oborne-Dorset/, retrieved 2 April 2011
- ^ (PDF) Diocese of Salisbury: All Schemes, Church Commissioners/Statistics, Church of England, 2011, p. 7–8, http://www.churchofengland.org/media/811097/salisbury%20-%20all%20schemes.pdf, retrieved 2 April 2011
- ^ Kinross, John (2003). Discovering England's smallest churches. London: Wiedenfeld & Nicholson. pp. 40–41. ISBN 1842127284.
- ^ a b Smith, Kenneth (2006). St Cuthbert's Old Church, Oborne, Dorset. London: Churches Conservation Trust.
- ^ "Parish Church of St Cuthbert". Images of England. English Heritage. http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=105624. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
Categories:- Church of England churches in Dorset
- Buildings and structures completed in 1533
- Grade II* listed churches
- Grade II* listed buildings in Dorset
- Churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust
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