Church of St Oswald
CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1135598
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Oswald
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1135598
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1962
- 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:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 19415 42145
Details
AIREBOROUGH CHURCH STREET SE 14 SE LS 20 (south side) Guiseley 10A/38 Church of St. Oswald 19.10.1962 GV I
Church. Late C11 or early C12, C13, C15, with additions and alterations, dated 1909, by Sir Charles Nicholson (Pevsner). Squared sandstone, graduated stone slate roof. West tower, nave and chancel in one, with south aisle to nave, large south transept to chancel, later nave added on north side, with C20 chancel, and C20 north aisle. Perpendicular 3-stage tower with diagonal buttresses has a chamfered 3-light west window with Perpendicular tracery, a clock face at the 2nd stage, dripmould to the 3rd stage and cusped 2-light louvred belfry windows above this, a machicolated embattled parapet supported by plain gargoyles, with crocketed corner pinnacles; on south side a small 2-centred arched chamfered doorway. Re-built south aisle and south wall of nave, 4-bays; gabled porch to 1st bay with Norman style outer doorway, protecting late Norman south doorway with 2 orders of colonnettes with decorated capitals low aisle with pitched roof and 3 cross-gables containing 2-light Norman-style windows with quatrefoils above; 6 coupled clerestorey windows each of 2 cusped lights. C13 south transept to chancel, with angle buttresses, has a large 4-light window with bar tracery and foiled circles, gable coping with carved finial, and in east wall 3 chamfered lancets. C20 east window of 5 lights with Perpendicular-style tracery. Additions on north side and east end in Perpendicular style, dated 1909 on north wall of vestry.
Interior: exceptionally wide interior space with 3 arcades: former nave has late Norman 4-bay south arcade of quatrefoil piers with scalloped cushion capitals, stepped semicircular arches; north arcade of octagonal columns with moulded caps carrying double-chamfered 2-centred arches; chancel to this nave has on each side a 2-centred arch moulded in 2 orders with responds composed of 3 slender detached shafts with annular caps, round a circular core; south transept arch with single detached shafts; in this transept a C17 pew of Calverley family of Esholt lettered "WC", and enclosed by this a medieval piscina; various wall monuments.
Listing NGR: SE1941542142
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342299
- 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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