{{Short description|Village and civil parish in Dorset, England}} {{For|people with the surname|Oborne (surname)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use British English|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox UK place | official_name = Oborne | country = England | region = South West England | static_image_name = Village street, Oborne - geograph.org.uk - 1767040.jpg | static_image_caption = Oborne village street | population = 101 | population_ref = <ref name=ons>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11127189&c=Oborne&d=16&e=62&g=6418549&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1394491832775&enc=1|publisher=[[Office for National Statistics]]|title=Area: Oborne (Parish), Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics|access-date=10 March 2014}}</ref> | os_grid_reference = ST655185 | coordinates = {{coord|50.9651|-2.4927|display=inline,title}} | post_town = Sherborne | postcode_area = DT | postcode_district = DT9 | constituency_westminster = [[West Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)|West Dorset]] | unitary_england = [[Dorset (unitary authority)|Dorset]] | lieutenancy_england = [[Dorset]] }}
'''Oborne''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|oʊ|b|ɔr|n}} is a village and [[civil parish]] in north west [[Dorset]], [[England]], situated just north of the [[A30 road]] approximately {{convert|1|mi|km}} northeast of [[Sherborne]], and is close to the border with [[Somerset]]. In the [[2011 United Kingdom census|2011 census]] the parish had a population of 101.<ref name=ons/> Oborne shares a [[Parish council (England)|grouped parish council]], Yeohead & Castleton Parish Council, with the three village parishes of [[Poyntington]], [[Goathill]] and [[Castleton, Dorset|Castleton]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yeoheadpc.co.uk/ |title=Yeohead & Castleton Parish Council|access-date=3 February 2015}}</ref>
A new parish church, designed by William Slater, was built on a fresh site in 1862. The volume on Dorset in the [[Pevsner Architectural Guides|Buildings of England]] series by John Newman and [[Nikolaus Pevsner]] describe this as having "nave with bellcote, chancel and apse ... Slater's and Carpenter's typical single and twin lancets with pointed-trefoiled cusping".<ref name="pevsner">{{cite book|last1=Newman|first1=John|last2=Pevsner|first2=Nikolaus|title=The Buildings of England: Dorset|publisher=Penguin|location=Harmondsworth|year=1972|page=306|isbn=0-14-071044-2}}</ref> The remains of the [[Old St Cuthbert's Church, Oborne|Old St Cuthbert's Church]] are half a mile south, on the other side of the A30. Only the chancel remains. Oborne had been given to [[Sherborne Abbey]] by the Saxon [[Edgar, King of England|King Edgar]] in the 10th century and it remained a 'chapel of ease' to the abbey until the [[Dissolution of the monasteries|Dissolution]] in 1539.<ref name="smith">{{cite book|last=Smith|first=Kenneth|title=St Cuthbert's Old Church, Oborne, Dorset|publisher=Churches Conservation Trust|location=London|year=2006}}</ref> 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.<ref name="smith" /> The interior of the chancel contains a 17th-century [[pulpit]] and communion rails as well as a [[piscina]] and [[baptismal font|font]] from the former church at North Wootton. Nothing now remains of the medieval nave that was demolished in the 1860s. The chancel lay neglected until 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 the church at Winterborne Tomson, Dorset.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kinross|first=John|title=Discovering England's smallest churches|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|location=London|year=2003|pages=40–41|isbn=1-84212-728-4}}</ref>
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[[Category:Villages in Dorset]] [[Category:Civil parishes in Dorset]]