CHURCH OF SAINT OSWALD

CHURCH OF SAINT OSWALD, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1173343
Date first listed:: 04-Jan-1955
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF SAINT OSWALD
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF SAINT OSWALD, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1173343
Date first listed:: 04-Jan-1955
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF SAINT OSWALD
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF SAINT OSWALD, MAIN STREET

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.

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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 SAINT OSWALD, MAIN STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Oswaldkirk
National Grid Reference:: SE 62085 78922

Details

OSWALDKIRK MAIN STREET SE 67 NW (south side)

6/49 Church of Saint Oswald

4.1.55 GV II*

Church. C12 nave with late C13 insertions and 1886 restoration including substantial rebuilding of chancel. Limestone, sandstone and millstone grit rubble and ashlar, Westmorland slate roof. 5½-bay nave with western bellcote and south porch, and 3-bay chancel with vestry to north. West front has massive quoins, one of which is probably a Saxon cross shaft re- used. Single-light trefoil-headed window and bellcote above. Nave: south door in Victorian porch beneath a rebuilt basket arch incorporates finely- detailed beaded foliate capitals. 2-light trefoil-headed windows, that to east being only original one. To north: doorway of 2 chamfered orders, the outer one supported by shafts with stylised foliate capitals, with narrow round-headed chamfered window to right and original 2-light trefoil-headed window matching those to south, on left. Chancel: to south a blocked square-headed priest's doorway with C14 foliate cross grave slab fragment built into jamb, flanked by 2 square-headed 2-light C19 windows. To north: C19 vestry. East end: 3-light C19 window in Decorated style, with 2-light ogee-headed window to vestry. Interior: C17 pulpit and panelling in chancel. Fragments of medieval window glass in east bay of nave windows. Monuments on west wall of nave: Mary Thompson, died 1747, plaque on black surround surmounted by medallion with child held by putto. Edward Thompson, died 1742, white marble plaque on black surround surmounted by medallion with bust. Pevsner N. "Yorkshire: The North Riding" 1966.

Listing NGR: SE6208578922

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Legacy System number:: 329609
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.