Listed Building: PARISH CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT (105624)

OBORNE ST 61 NE OBORNE VILLAGE 6/82 Parish Church of St Cuthbert 18.9.75 GV II Parish Church. Consecration date 1862, by Slater. Ashlar stone walls. Clay-tile roof with gable-ends and stone gable-copings. Stone slate roof to the polygonal-ended chancel. Stone bellcote, on the west gable with stone pyramidal roof. Nave and chancel. Single storey. Nave has three coupled trefoil-headed windows. Two single light trefoil-headed windows to chancel, and one on each face of the apse. Plinth moulding, string under the windows and cornice moulding. South porch to nave, gabled with stone slate roof, stone gable-coping and cross at apex. Pointed arch entrance with attached responds, capitals and bases. Pointed-arch entrance with roll moulding to church. Plank door with strap-hinges. Interior: pointed chancel-arch of two orders with responds. Carved foliated stone capitals. Roof: nave has 4 bays of arch-braced collars, carried on simply moulded stone corbels. Fittings: Font, stone, round bowl with foliate band and a carved roundel at the centre of each side. Short stem with polygonal sides and moulded base. C19. Pulpit, stone and circular with a band of foliate ornament and a bead moulding round the rim, C19. (J Newman and N Pevsner, Dorset, p 306). Listing NGR: ST6539918509

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