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St Osmund's Church,
London Road, Wilmorton, DE24 8UW,
Osmaston, Derby, Derbyshire.

Cemeteries

We believe the Church does NOT have a graveyard.

Note: any church within an urban environment may have had its graveyard closed after the Burial Act of 1853. Any new church built after that is unlikely to have had a graveyard at all.

Church History

This Place of Worship was founded in 1905, and we understand it is still open.

St Osmund's was designed by Percy Currie, the brother of Lancelot Currie, its first Vicar, in a "late Victorian Gothic" style. Inside it has "an unusual set of Stations of the Cross in plaster of paris and a striking Rood Screen", and there are superb acoustics.

This was not apparently the first church for Osmaston, as The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland states its church was dedicated to All Saints, of which Kelly's Directory of 1895 says "is an ancient edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, vestry, south porch and an eastern turret containing one bell, and is the successor of a church or chantry of Norman origin existing here in 1127".

Derbyshire Record Office's catalogue of Church of England Registers says Osmaston by Derby "parish was centred originally on St James's church, and after 1905 on St Osmund. Part of the parish was transferred to a new parish of St Bartholomew in 1927. United with parish of St Andrew, Derby, 1969, St James and St Osmund churches both now demolished".

It is possible they intended to say that St James and St Andrew's churches were demolished, as St Osmund is still standing, now (2010) dedicated to 'St Andrew with St Osmund'. St Andrew's House has been built on the site where St Andrew's Church used to be, and (in 1998) a Social Security Office was occupying the premises. Their reference to St James's church, described elsewhere in their catalogue as "St James the Less", appears to have been a rededication of All Saints, some time between Kelly's Directory of 1895 and Kelly in 1912. [Sources: A Church Near You, Derbyshire Record Office's catalogue of Church of England Registers, and Mike Salter's The Old Parish Churches of Derbyshire (1998)]

Denomination

Now or formerly Church of England.

If more than one congregation has worshipped here, or its congregation has united with others, in most cases this will record its original dedication.

Maps

This Church is located at OS grid reference SK3733934192. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• St Osmund's Church, Osmaston, Derby shown on a Google Map.
• Places of Worship in Derby shown on a Google Map.
• Streetmap.co.uk (arrow on map shows the Place of Worship's location) (verified 2018-10-15)
• Bing (Ordnance Survey option) (verified 2018-10-13)
• Bing Maps ('Bird's Eye' View) (verified 2018-10-15)
• Ordnance Survey "getamap" (NB some of the 'Change Map' options may require a subscription) (verified 2018-10-15)
• OpenStreetMap (Maps © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA) (verified 2018-10-15)
• A Vision of Britain Through Time - useful for Boundary Changes (verified 2018-10-15)
• www.magic.gov.uk (Modern Maps with various overlays) (verified 2018-10-15)

Resources

I have found many websites of use whilst compiling the information for this database. Here are some which deserve mention as being of special interest for Osmaston, Derby, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

• The Church of England's finding aid - A Church Near You (null) (verified 2018-09-21)

The above links were selected and reviewed at the time I prepared the information, but please be aware their content may vary, or disappear entirely. These factors are outside my control.