Church of St Oswald
CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, A174
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1316097
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Oswald
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, A174
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1316097
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Oswald
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, A174
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, A174
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lythe
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ8501613164
Details
NZ 81 SE LYTHE A174
(north side) Lythe
5/171
Church of St Oswald
6.10.69
- I
Parish Church. C13 on older site, largely rebuilt 1910 by Sir Walter Tapper.
Some Saxon carved fragments in tower. North aisle masonry original. Some
medieval masonry in east end. Coursed squared stone, clay tiled roof; added
buttresses to chancel. Nave, aisles, lower chancel with shorter aisles. Large
square west tower with short stone spire. South porch. 4-bay nave, 3-bay
chancel. Large sloped and stepped buttresses define bays. Tower of 2 stages
has paired lancet bell openings with quatrefoil spandrel, corbel table and
parapet. Small lucarnes to spire. Battered buttresses to porch with 2-centred
door arch and nook shafts, low parapet. Good rainwater heads, dated 1911.
Vaulted porch roof has carved boss. Oak door linen-fold panelled. Small bap-
tistery to west of tower. Interior: alternating round and octagonal arcade
piers. Rib vault and oak gallery to tower. Arch-braced collar-beam nave roofs
appears to use old timbers as do beam-and-joist aisle roofs, all moulded.
Screen with organ case above. Vaulted south aisle chapel. Several Georgian
memorial tablets.
Listing NGR: NZ8501613164
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 327246
- 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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