Church of St Oswald
CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1120678
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Oswald
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1120678
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Oswald
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, CHURCH STREET
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.
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, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- City of Durham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 27585 41915
Details
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE CHURCH STREET NZ 2741 NE (West side)
17/50 Church of St. Oswald 6.5.52 GV II*
Parish church. Late C12; probably on site of earlier church; extensively rebuilt 1834 by Ignatius Bonomi (chancel, south aisle, west part of north wall, clerestory). Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; roof damaged by fire at time of survey. West tower, aisled nave, chancel with 1864 north vestry, by Hodgson Fowler.
4-stage tower has renewed 4-light west window and blank north and south first stage; small 2-light windows above with cusped ogee heads; very small square windows in third stage; tall 2-light belfry openings with 2-centred heads. Diagonal buttresses with offsets; battlemented parapet with corner gargoyles and pinnacles. Buttressed south aisle has renewed moulded 2-centred arch in first bay under ogee-headed niche with blind tracery above; (plainer door in first bay of north aisle); 2-light windows in 2-centred arches; parapet with sloped coping. Tudor arches over clerestory windows with 3 cusped lights; battlemented parapet on shafts. 3-bay chancel has 3 cusped lights; east front has high gable containing 4-light window with reticulated tracery flanked by large diagonal buttresses; niches in these contain statues under crocketed gablets; spirelets have acanthus finials. North aisle windows: Decorated in 2 west bays separated by large buttress from 2 east bays with Perpendicular windows, all of 2 lights. Interior: plaster with sandstone ashlar arcades and dressings; low-pitched roof has king posts flanked by 4 queen posts each side; re-used purlins: alternate trusses rest on re-used braces with angels and masks, said to be from earlier hammer-beam roof. Nave arcades have chamfered round arches on keeled shafts and 3 round columns at east end; 2 octagonal columns and octagonal half-columns at west end; 2-centred slightly-chamfered chancel arch on water-leaf capitals and square piers with broach-stopped chamfers. North aisle of 2 stages: eastern 3 bays end in transverse arch and have C16 panelled roof with moulded beams and bosses,now with decoration removed. Tower has tall double-chamfered arch with moulded square capitals; square-headed door to stone spiral stair, formed from medieval grave-covers; 8- ribbed vault with wide circular central rib. Glass in west window 1864-6 by Morris and Co. with panels by Ford Madox Brown; other windows by Kempe and Co. and by Clayton and Bell. Undergoing repairs at time of survey.
Listing NGR: NZ2758541915
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110099
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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