Listed Building record MDR893 - St Martin's Church, Church Lane, Osmaston

A grade II* listed Parish church. It was built in 1845 by H Stevens of Derby, in a rich 14th century Decorated style. It is built of coursed rock-faced small stones with sandstone dressings. It has Welsh slate roofs, with stone coped gables and plain coped parapets to the aisles. It comprises west tower, aisled nave with south porch, and chancel with octagonal north vestry. The west tower is of three stages divided by chamfered string courses. It has angle buttresses and a polyzonal stair turret crowned by an elaborate octagonal gableted, crocketed and pinnacled top. There is a low west doorway, with a three-light Decorated style window above that has a hoodmould on figure stops. There is a cusped lancet above, a similar lancet to the north and a clock face to the south. Pairs of two-light bell-openings are deeply set with reticulated tracery to each face. It also has a parapet with a cusped undulating pattern. The church has an octagonal vestry with a pyramid roof and buttresses at the angles. There is a gabled south porch with diagonal buttresses rising to gabled pinnacles. The doorway has two orders of shafts, foliage capitals and a hollow moulding with fleurons. There are also fleur de lys boot scrapers. Inside, there are seats within the blind arcades, and roofs with transverse arches on foliage corbels. There is also a many moulded south doorway plank door with elaborate C-hinges. The four-bay nave arcades have filleted shafts, moulded quatrefoil capitals and arches with two wave mouldings. There is a tall chancel arch with filleted trefoil responds and rich naturalistic capitals. The tower arch has, to the nave, three filleted shafts. Within the tower is a stone rib vault with tiercerons. The nave has a king post roof with decorative cusping and arched braces on angle corbels. Between the trusses are two tiers of wind braces. The chancel has an elaborate pointed wooden tunnel vault with nine transverse arches and two tiers of tracery motifs. All with painted decoration. There is a mosaic and painted reredos depicting the last supper, continued as a dado. There is also a mosaic floor and mosaic frieze around the top of the chancel walls. The marble and stone pulpit has openwork traceried panels. The pews in the nave and aisles also have tracery panelled ends. The choir stalls at the west end of the nave have an openwork tracery front. The font at the west end of the south aisle has a circular bowl and base with bands of deeply carved foliage. Another font at the east end of the south aisle comprises a much weathered circular bowl on an octagonal base. (1)