Parish Church Of St Osmond

The parish church of St Osmond is a Grade I listed building, dating primarily to the 18th century, with a 15th-century west tower. The nave and chancel were rebuilt in 1745 at the expense of Mrs. S. Strangways Homer, a fact recorded by a tablet within the chancel. The chancel was subsequently refenestrated in the 19th century. The church is constructed of rubble-stone walls, with an ashlar facing on the south side, and has slate roofs.

The west tower, of three stages, features strings, a classical cornice, an embattled parapet, and crocketed finials, representing a reworking of 18th-century designs. A doorway on the west side has moulded jambs and a depressed-arch head, leading to a plank door. The upper stage of the west side contains an openwork quatrefoil within a roundel, dating to the 18th century. A roundel is also present on the ground stage of the south side, while the second stage has a two-light window with Y-tracery, and the third stage boasts a clock face.

The nave has three windows wide, with a cornice and embattled parapet. The windows are two-light structures with a central stone mullion into Y tracery heads, with round heads. A blocked south doorway, centrally positioned, is surrounded by a Gibbs surround, has a keyed lintel, and a moulded cornice. Above the doorway is an oculus framed by a Gibbs surround.

The chancel's south wall has a window of two trefoiled lights, with a trefoil in a spherical triangle in the head, a label, and head stops. A pointed-arch doorway leads to a plank door. The east window features three trefoiled lights, with quatrefoils and trefoils incorporated into the head. Access is provided through the west tower door.

Inside, the tower arch has two orders of responds and a hollow chamfer between, dating to the 15th century. The chancel arch boasts hollow-and-nave jamb mouldings and a wide two-centred arch, dating from circa the 18th century. The nave's roof is a flat wooden ceiling with ribbed compartments, dating to the 20th century, while the chancel's roof is a cambered, compartmented ceiling. The font is a plain stone bowl set into the tower responds, believed to be medieval. A fragment of a circa 10th-century sculpture—an animal lying flat, trapped in interlacing foliage—has been reset into the north wall of the chancel. Wall monuments and tablets commemorate Mrs. Homer and members of the Perkins family from 1791 to 1834. A chest in the tower has an enriched top rail and panelled front, with the inscription "Ex dono Gregoni Hoopper, 1697" on the lid.