Church of St Oswald

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SK 87 SW
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DUNHAM-ON-TRENT
MAIN STREET (south side)
Church of St. Oswald

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Parish church. C15. With the exception of the tower the church was rebuilt in 1862. Ashlar. Slate roofs. Coped gables with single ridge crosses to the east end of the nave and chancel. Set on a plinth. Tower, nave, north aisle and chancel.

The C15 tower with embattled parapet and four crocketed pinnacles has two gargoyles on the north side and the remains of single gargoyles to both the west and south sides. The diagonal buttresses are gabled part way up where they are decorated with crockets. There are single string courses extending over the plinth and at the juncture of each of the four stages. The west is of three stages. West doorway with pointed arched surround, hood mould, label stops and wooden door. Above is a single ogee arched and vaulted niche with two bosses, the arch is decorated with crockets, over is a hood mould with grotesque head label stops and ornate finial. Above is a single large moulded arched window with four lights, panel tracery, cusping, hood mould, figurative label stops and finial. There are four very large arched and traceried belfry openings each with four arched and cusped lights surmounted by a further four similar lights. There are three, four and single small rectangular stair lights to the west, south and north sides respectively. The east side has evidence of a former nave roof.

The north aisle has three two light windows with tracery and cusping under flat arches. The east wall has a single two light arched window with tracery and cusping. The north chancel wall has a single arched, traceried and cusped light with hood mould and head label stops. The east wall has a single three light arched, traceried and cusped window with hood mould, head label stops and sill band with foliate stops. In the apex is a single trefoil. The south chancel has a single two light window with cusping and single stone transom under a flat arch. The south nave has three arched two light Y traceried windows with hood moulds, label stops and carved head finials.

Interior. three bay nave arcade with double chamfered arches supported on circular columns with moulded capitals and, at the west and east sides, on foliate decorated corbels. The double chamfered chancel arch is supported on slim engaged columns with foliate decorated capitals. The tall double chamfered tower arch has foliate decorated imposts, the angles below the imposts are decorated with ribs and there are blind cusped panels at the base. The south chancel wall has a piscina with cusped and decorated arch and foliate decorated ogee hood mould, label stops and finial. To the right is a single sedile with fleuron decorated moulded arch and similarly decorated hood mould,with foliate label stops. The reredos and furniture are C19.

Listing NGR: SK8150874488

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