Church of St Oswald

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ASGARBY AND HOWELL HOWELL TF 14 NW 3/10 Church of St. Oswald 1/2/67 G.V. II*

Parish church. C12, C13, C14, C15, C16, restored 1870. Coursed limestone rubble and ashlar, slate roofs. Nave with bellcote, chancel, South porch, north aisle and chapel. West end of C14 ashlar added to earlier rubble nave. 2 light west window with reticulated tracery in a pointed surround, flanked by stepped buttresses. Above a gabled double bellcote with pointed bell openings. The north aisle has a single C13 lancet in a chamfered surround to the west. The north wall of the aisle has 2 two light C15 windows with trefoil heads and chamfered rectangular surrounds, also a blocked segmental headed doorway. The C15 north chapel contains 2 two light windows in the north wall with cusped ogee tracery, quatrefoils to the heads and hollow chamfered rectangular surrounds. To the east is a 3 light window with cusped intersecting tracery in a hollow chamfered pointed surround. The C14 chancel east window is of 2 lights with reticulated tracery. In the south wall of the chancel are 2 matching windows, one C19. In the south wall of the nave is a 3 light C16 panel traceried window with slightly pointed heads to the lights and a hollow chamfered surround. The gabled south porch has a continuously moulded outer doorway with above a stone shield of arms. Side benches. The reset C12 inner doorway has nook shafts, cushion capitals, a plain tympanum with scratch dial and a single plain order beneath the chamfered hood mould. Interior: 3 bay north arcade of c.1200, circular piers, annular capitals, octagonal responds, double chamfered round arches. At the east end of the north aisle a pointed double chamfered C13 archway with shafted reveals leads into the north chapel. In the north wall of the chancel is a similar opening. In the south wall is a single and in the north wall a double aumbry. In the north chapel is a further aumbry, 2 statue brackets on the east wall and to the west a blocked circular quatrefoil window. Fittings: in the north chapel are 6 quarries of C15 painted glass. Early C18 tapering turned baluster altar rails with moulded handrail. C19 openwork ashlar pulpit. C14 octagonal font with cusped quatrefoil panels, armorial shields and moulded underside to plain octagonal stem. In the porch is a C10 tapering limestone ashlar grave slab with a tall central raised cross flanked by single smaller crosses. Monuments: in the north chapel a cusped pointed C14 tomb recess contains a ledger slab depicting busts of a lady and a child, both praying and in trefoiled surrounds. Also in the north chapel an alabaster wall monument to Sir Charles Dymoke and wife with 2 praying figures in a surround of Corinthian columns supported on acanthus brackets with a moulded entablature and armorial escutcheon. In the sanctuary a low relief slab to John Croxby, Rector, c.1470, a robed and tonsured figure beneath a trefoil arch, black letter marginal inscription. In the chancel is a similar plain slab with marginal inscription to Sir Nicholas de Hebden d.1416 and his wife Katherine d.1424. A further slab in the nave of 1458 commemorates Richard Boteler and his wife.

Listing NGR: TF1350746256

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