CHURCH OF ST OSWALD

CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1315125
Date first listed:: 31-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST OSWALD
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1315125
Date first listed:: 31-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST OSWALD
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST 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 ST OSWALD, MAIN STREET

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: East Harlsey
National Grid Reference:: SE4261999748

Details

SE 49 NW 2/7 31.3.70

EAST HARLSEY MAIN STREET (south side, off) Church of St Oswald

GV II*

Church. C12 origins, C17, restored 1885. Ashlar, coursed squared stone, graduated slate roofs. Nave with bellcote, south porch and north aisle, chancel also with north aisle. Nave: 3 bays. To centre a C17 south porch, gabled with chamfered 4-centred-arched doorway, 3 ball finials to stone coping. To its left a chamfered flat headed 2-light window with segment headed lights and incised spandrels, to right of porch similar window of 3 lights. Early C19 wall memorial to far left. Stone coping. West gable has rubble base, offset angle buttresses and central pilaster buttress. Chamfered bands at eaves level and half way up. Central 2-light flat-headed window with arched lights and incised spandrels. Above a C17 double bellcote which has rusticated stonework with 4-centred-arched openings, moulded cornice, pyramidal gable with squat obelisk on top, flanked by 2 similar obelisks. North aisle: C19, 4 bays. Offset angle buttresses. Flat-headed chamfered ogee-traceried windows of 2 lights, except that to right of left-hand bay which is of 4 lights. Chamfered lancet to west end. Stone copings. Chancel: C19, 2 bays; diagonal offset eastern buttresses. South side: to left-hand bay a 2-light flat-headed chamfered window with round-headed lights. To right a tall thin chamfered 1-light flat-headed opening. Stone coping, gable cross. East window: 3-lights, in shallow pointed arch, the lights are stepped with pointed-arch heads, hoodmould. Wall memorials below. Interior: C19 3-bay north arcade with octagonal piers and moulded pointed arches, chancel arch similar. Medieval monument, recumbent effigy of knight, with bare head, chain mail, long mantle, crossed legs and large shield, feet on lion, c1320-30. Fine early C18 carved marble monument to George Laverson with pilasters and open pediment with 3 cherubs inside it.

Listing NGR: SE4261999748

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Legacy System number:: 332440
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.