Church of St Oswald
CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, CHURCH CLIFF DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1316455
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Oswald
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, CHURCH CLIFF DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1316455
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Oswald
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, CHURCH CLIFF DRIVE
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, CHURCH CLIFF DRIVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Filey
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 11778 81065
Details
TA 11 81
10/6
24.10.50
FILEY
CHURCH CLIFF DRIVE
(south-east side, off)
Church of St Oswald
GV
I
Church. C12 and C13 with C15 battlements; restored and partly rebuilt in
1885 by W S Barber; roof partly rebuilt in 1908 after a fire; C19 south
porch; C20 vestry and north porch. Dressed sandstone; slate and lead roofs.
6-bay aisled nave with clerestory, transepts and crossing tower, chancel and
north and south porches. 2-stage, embattled crossing tower with 2-light
pointed bell openings under a round-headed arch; countinuous sill band.
South door to nave of four orders with moulded round arches interrupted by
later inserted stoup. Vertical slit window in west end, originally intended
to light a west tower stair turret. Impost band to aisles and nave.
Transepts have stepped angle buttresses and a continuous sill band. Chancel
has a pointed Priest's Door under a corbelled dripmould in south wall, with
a mass clock and C17 bronze sundial inscribed in Greek to the right. Group
of 3 stepped lancets in the east end, under a continuous hoodmould.
Diagonal butresses. Lancet windows throughout, those in the chancel and
transepts dating from C12/C13, the remainder from C19. Embattled parapet
over corbel table throughout. Interior: nave arcades have tripartite
responds with the middle shaft keeled, alternating round and octagonal piers
with moulded capitals and chamfered pointed arches. Deeply-splayed round-
headed clerestory openings; similar openings at west end of north aisle.
Sedilia with trefoil head to chancel and south transept; piscina to each
transept. Other furnishings include; a late C13 carved wooden figure in the
south aisle; a sealed altar slab carved with 5 crosses in the sanctuary; a
C13 plain bowl font on a cylindrical shaft; a hatchment over the north door.
Listing NGR: TA1177881065
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 326943
- 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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