Church of St Oswald
CHURCH OF ST OSWALD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1130886
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Oswald
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST OSWALD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1130886
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Oswald
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST OSWALD
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Castle Bolton with East and West Bolton
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 03364 91875
Details
SE 09 SW CASTLE BOLTON WITH CASTLE BOLTON EAST AND WEST BOLTON
5/2 Church of St Oswald 13/2/67
GV II*
Church. Late C14. Rubble, Welsh slate roof. West tower, nave and chancel in one, south porch, north heating chamber. 2-storey west tower, quoined, with single-light, pointed-arch west window under label and, above, a 2-light-belfry opening without mullion, with trefoiled heads to monolithic lintel; single lancet to south. Gabled porch with shaped kneelers and ashlar copings, faced with concrete internally. South doorway with continuous hollow-chamfer, and same to label. Nave and chancel: offset diagonal buttresses; three 2-light windows with curvilinear tracery, some recut, the first two with transom, and between first and second a low-side lancet window; 3 gargoyles; parapet. 3-light east window with curvilinear tracery and transom; small circular window to roof void; gable finial. Interior: tower arch of two chamfered orders, the inner on corbels, the outer with stops, and fragments of earlier carved stones built into jambs. Corbels for rood beam, with low-side window and trefoil-headed piscina with broken basin to chapel formerly below rood screen. Chancel: cusped ogee- headed niches with labels flank east window. Ogee-headed piscina with label and niches in sides for cruets. 3-seater sedilia with cusped trefoiled heads and label with heads in centre and flowers at ends, and trefoil-headed openings piercing the divisions. Nave: font with hexagonal basin, slightly shafted at three angles, on hexagonal stem and base. Medieval corbel in north wall inscribed "Tomas Ro". George IV coat of arms. VCH i, p.278.
Listing NGR: SE0336491875
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321751
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 278
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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