Description

OSWALDKIRK MAIN STREET
SE 67 NW (south side)

6/49 Church of Saint Oswald

4.1.55
GV II*

Church. C12 nave with late C13 insertions and 1886 restoration including
substantial rebuilding of chancel. Limestone, sandstone and millstone grit
rubble and ashlar, Westmorland slate roof. 5½-bay nave with western
bellcote and south porch, and 3-bay chancel with vestry to north. West
front has massive quoins, one of which is probably a Saxon cross shaft re-
used. Single-light trefoil-headed window and bellcote above. Nave: south
door in Victorian porch beneath a rebuilt basket arch incorporates finely-
detailed beaded foliate capitals. 2-light trefoil-headed windows, that to
east being only original one. To north: doorway of 2 chamfered orders, the
outer one supported by shafts with stylised foliate capitals, with narrow
round-headed chamfered window to right and original 2-light trefoil-headed
window matching those to south, on left. Chancel: to south a blocked
square-headed priest's doorway with C14 foliate cross grave slab fragment
built into jamb, flanked by 2 square-headed 2-light C19 windows. To north:
C19 vestry. East end: 3-light C19 window in Decorated style, with 2-light
ogee-headed window to vestry. Interior: C17 pulpit and panelling in
chancel. Fragments of medieval window glass in east bay of nave windows.
Monuments on west wall of nave: Mary Thompson, died 1747, plaque on black
surround surmounted by medallion with child held by putto. Edward Thompson,
died 1742, white marble plaque on black surround surmounted by medallion
with bust. Pevsner N. "Yorkshire: The North Riding" 1966.

Listing NGR: SE6208578922

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of Saint Oswald, King and Martyr, Oswaldkirk at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5117057

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Recommended Books

• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)