Parish Church of St Oswald
PARISH CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1207715
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Oswald
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1207715
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Oswald
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH 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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashbourne
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 17628 46439
Details
822/1/24; 822/2/24
CHURCH STREET (south-east side)
Parish Church of St Oswald
15-JUN-51
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I
Early foundation. Present church is mainly Early English from circa 1220 but
a few remnants of earlier Norman work survive and a Saxon cross shaft (part)
in the south aisle. The church is believed to stand on the site of a pagan holy
well, now thought to be concealed beneath tyre crossing. The tower and spire
circa 1330. The spire, which has been rebuilt several times, has a height of
215ft. Perpendicular additions and alterations circa 1520. The battlements
to the chancel were added by Sir G G Scott in 1878 and the church was restored
by Cottingham earlier in the C19. Some fine monuments from C14, of which the
most famous is probably the figure of Penelope Boothby 1791, by Thomas Banks.
Some mediaeval glass remains.
In 1644, the church was fired on by Parliamentarians and the marks are still
visible in the west wall.
Nos 38, 40 and 72, together with Pegg's Almshouses, Owlfield's Almhouses, The
Mansion, the Summerhouse and the cobbled pavements form a group with the parish
Church of St Oswald and the churchyard gate piers, gates and walls.
Listing NGR: SK1763146443
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 79839
- 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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