# Oborne

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Village and civil parish in Dorset, England

For people with the surname, see [Oborne (surname)](/source/Oborne_(surname)).

Human settlement in England

Oborne Oborne village street Oborne Location within Dorset Population 101 [1] OS grid reference ST655185 Unitary authority Dorset Ceremonial county Dorset Region South West Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town Sherborne Postcode district DT9 Police Dorset Fire Dorset and Wiltshire Ambulance South Western UK Parliament West Dorset List of places UK England Dorset 50°57′54″N 2°29′34″W / 50.9651°N 2.4927°W / 50.9651; -2.4927

**Oborne** [/ˈoʊbɔːrn/](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English) is a village and [civil parish](/source/Civil_parish) in north west [Dorset](/source/Dorset), [England](/source/England), situated just north of the [A30 road](/source/A30_road) approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) northeast of [Sherborne](/source/Sherborne), and is close to the border with [Somerset](/source/Somerset). In the [2011 census](/source/2011_United_Kingdom_census) the parish had a population of 101.[1] Oborne shares a [grouped parish council](/source/Parish_council_(England)), Yeohead & Castleton Parish Council, with the three village parishes of [Poyntington](/source/Poyntington), [Goathill](/source/Goathill) and [Castleton](/source/Castleton%2C_Dorset).[2]

A new parish church, designed by William Slater, was built on a fresh site in 1862. The volume on Dorset in the [Buildings of England](/source/Pevsner_Architectural_Guides) series by John Newman and [Nikolaus Pevsner](/source/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".[3] The remains of the [Old St Cuthbert's Church](/source/Old_St_Cuthbert's_Church%2C_Oborne) are half a mile south, on the other side of the A30. Only the chancel remains. Oborne had been given to [Sherborne Abbey](/source/Sherborne_Abbey) by the Saxon [King Edgar](/source/Edgar%2C_King_of_England) in the 10th century and it remained a 'chapel of ease' to the abbey until the [Dissolution](/source/Dissolution_of_the_monasteries) in 1539.[4] 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.[4] The interior of the chancel contains a 17th-century [pulpit](/source/Pulpit) and communion rails as well as a [piscina](/source/Piscina) and [font](/source/Baptismal_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](/source/Society_for_the_Protection_of_Ancient_Buildings)) who was also responsible for the restoration of the church at Winterborne Tomson, Dorset.[5]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-ons_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-ons_1-1) ["Area: Oborne (Parish), Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics"](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). *Neighbourhood Statistics*. [Office for National Statistics](/source/Office_for_National_Statistics). Retrieved 10 March 2014.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Yeohead & Castleton Parish Council"](http://www.yeoheadpc.co.uk/). Retrieved 3 February 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-pevsner_3-0)** Newman, John; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1972). *The Buildings of England: Dorset*. Harmondsworth: Penguin. p. 306. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-14-071044-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-14-071044-2).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-smith_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-smith_4-1) Smith, Kenneth (2006). *St Cuthbert's Old Church, Oborne, Dorset*. London: Churches Conservation Trust.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Kinross, John (2003). *Discovering England's smallest churches*. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 40–41. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-84212-728-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-84212-728-4).

## External links

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