Description

NZ 16 SW WYLAM CHURCH ROAD

19/142 Church of St. Oswin

GV II

Parish church. 1886 by R.J. Johnson. Largely snecked rubble with Lakeland slate roof. Nave and chancel, south porch, south tower, north vestry and organ chamber. Perpendicular style. 3-bay nave has first a timber porch with delicate tracery, then 2-light windows. Tall embattled tower with angle buttresses, 2-light bell openings and gargoyles; also acts as transept internally. 2-bay chancel with unusual Perpendicular tracery. East and west windows are 5-light with panel tracery. Organ chamber and vestry, under catslide roof, also treated as transept internally. Gables are raised with ridged and roll-moulded coping. Wrought-iron vane on tower.

Interior: Canted barrel-vaulted wood panelled ceiling with carved bosses and frieze. Chancel ceiling is painted with Tudor roses and foliage and has carved relief frieze of vines. Pews, pulpit and doors have linenfold carving. Screens and altar rails with panels of tracery. Traceried reredos.

Listing NGR: NZ1136564737

External Links

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