Church of St Oswald
CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, LEATHLEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1174461
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Oswald
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, LEATHLEY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1174461
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Oswald
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, LEATHLEY LANE
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, LEATHLEY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Leathley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 23188 47010
Details
SE 24 NW LEATHLEY LEATHLEY LANE (west side, off) 4/42 Church of St Oswald
22.11.66
GV I
Church of St Oswald. C12 and C15/16, restored 1869. Coursed gritstone rubble in tower, remainder ashlar, stone slate roof. West tower; 2-bay nave with north and south aisles and south porch; chancel of 2 bays with organ chamber on north side and vestry on south side. Tower of 4 stages, slight quoins, a narrow single-splayed window to stages 2 and 3 and a larger, round-headed belfry window. Pyramidal roof. Shallow pointed arch to south porch and round headed 3-light mullioned windows to south aisle and chancel. C19 gabled windows, Perpendicular style, at east end of south aisle wall and chancel. Interior: west wall of nave has round-headed, quoined and voussoired arch and fine door with elaborate wrought-iron strap hinges and decoration, probably C12 or C13. Above it a single-splayed window looking into the second stage of the tower. The 2-bay nave arcades have octagonal piers with roll-mouldings and emblems in relief on capitals. Unmoulded, round-headed chancel arch. Chancel has piscina with triangular canopy and crocketted finials, south side. Memorials to Hitch family on chancel walls. The restoration of 1869 included a new roof, the replacement of the box pews and the insertion of the organ into the north aisle chapel. H Speight, Upper Wharfedale, London, 1900, p 119. N Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding,' 1967, p 301.
Listing NGR: SE2318847012
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 330510
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Speight, H, Upper Wharfedale, (1900), 119
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 301
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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