Church of St Oswald Tower
CHURCH OF ST OSWALD TOWER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1091372
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Oswald Tower
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST OSWALD TOWER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1091372
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Oswald Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST OSWALD TOWER
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST OSWALD TOWER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Tewkesbury (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Highnam
- National Grid Reference:
- SO7960121170
Details
HIGHNAM LASSINGTON
SO 72 SE
3/57 Church of St. Oswald: tower
10-1-55
GV II*
Tower to former parish church, now property of Redundant Churches
Fund. Late C11, C14 top, east wall partly 1976 for R.C.F.
Squared, coursed lias rubble, with quoins approaching ashlar: stone
slate roof. Square tower. Tower in 3 stages, narrowing slightly
at each: battered, rough plinth. South face: plain lowest stage,
semi-circular headed lancet to second, head single block, slightly
projecting stone above, possibly originally carved. Third stage
wider lancet, single-stone head, ogee with trefoil below, stone
louvres. Pyramid roof, iron cross to apex. West face narrow,
semi-circular headed lancet to lowest stage, second plain, third as
south. North face opening only in top stage, as on south side.
East face partly renewed 1975-6, with new semi-circular headed
doorway at foot, with late C19 boarded door with decorative
ironmongery. No offset to first stage, only second, opening to top
stage as other faces. Church re-dedicated on Palm Sunday, 1095.
Nave and chancel heavily restored 1875 by Medland and Son,
demolished 1975.
(Notice on church; D. Verey, Gloucestershire, the Vale and the
Forest of Dean, 1970)
Listing NGR: SO7960121170
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 134348
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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