Church Of St Cosmas And St Damian

The Church of St Cosmas and St Damian is an Anglican parish church located in Sherrington. The core of the structure dates to the 14th century, but it was largely rebuilt in 1624. The church is constructed of dressed limestone with a fishscale tiled roof, stone slate eaves, and coped verges. The plan incorporates a nave, a west bellcote, a south porch, and a chancel.

The gabled south porch has a semi-circular arched doorway with cyma moulding and imposts, a coped verge, and a stone slate roof. A recessed panel above the door displays the arms of Thomas Lambert of Boyton and the date 1624, along with the initials SG inscribed on a stone to the right. The nave features a 2-light square-headed window with plain pointed lights to the left and right of the porch, and a single semi-circular headed window to the right, accompanied by a buttress with offsets. The chancel has two 14th-century two-light square-headed windows with ogee cusping to the south and north, diagonal buttresses, and a 4-light 14th-century window with interlaced tracery to the east. The north side of the nave includes a blocked pointed doorway, two 17th-century windows with pointed lights on either side, and buttresses with offsets. The west end displays diagonal buttresses, a 14th-century three-light window with reticulated tracery, and a chamfered lancet above. A 19th-century bellcote, constructed of ashlar, is situated on the west gable, featuring chamfered Tudor-arched openings with hoodmoulds and foliated terminals, as well as fleur de lis shaped ridge coping.

Inside, the porch contains fixed stone benches and a pointed chamfered inner doorway with a ledged door. The nave has a plastered barrel-vaulted roof with ovolo-moulded wooden ribs and carved bosses, divided into five bays, and flagstone floors. The plastered walls retain good surviving painted cartouches with Biblical inscriptions and prayers; one bears the date 1630 and was uncovered and restored by Janet Becker in 1939. A moulded pointed chancel arch leads to a chancel with a two-bay collar-truss roof, previously plastered and ceiled at collar level. The church has good, relatively unaltered fittings from the early 17th century. These include 17th-century pews with shell-headed bench ends and floral carving, some with strapwork friezes, a polygonal carved wooden pulpit, a communion table with turned legs, communion rails with turned balusters and Tuscan newels, and strapwork carving on the rail. A restored 13th-century octagonal stone font is located at the west end, covered by a 17th-century wooden cover. Queen Anne Royal Arms are displayed above the chancel arch. A panelled reredos, in the same style as the pews, commemorates a deceased rector from 1909. The east window contains stained glass from 1900, with some reset 17th-century roundels of Flemish glass in the chancel. Monuments include a limestone gothic-style tablet in the chancel to Mason Anderson, who died in 1852.