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:: CHURCH OF ST OSWALD TOWER

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Official list entry

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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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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.