Description

AIREBOROUGH CHURCH STREET
SE 14 SE
LS 20 (south side)
Guiseley
10A/38 Church of St. Oswald
19.10.1962
GV I

Church. Late C11 or early C12, C13, C15, with additions and alterations,
dated 1909, by Sir Charles Nicholson (Pevsner). Squared sandstone, graduated
stone slate roof. West tower, nave and chancel in one, with south aisle to
nave, large south transept to chancel, later nave added on north side, with
C20 chancel, and C20 north aisle. Perpendicular 3-stage tower with diagonal
buttresses has a chamfered 3-light west window with Perpendicular tracery, a
clock face at the 2nd stage, dripmould to the 3rd stage and cusped 2-light
louvred belfry windows above this, a machicolated embattled parapet
supported by plain gargoyles, with crocketed corner pinnacles; on south side
a small 2-centred arched chamfered doorway. Re-built south aisle and south
wall of nave, 4-bays; gabled porch to 1st bay with Norman style outer
doorway, protecting late Norman south doorway with 2 orders of colonnettes
with decorated capitals low aisle with pitched roof and 3 cross-gables
containing 2-light Norman-style windows with quatrefoils above;
6 coupled clerestorey windows each of 2 cusped lights. C13 south transept to
chancel, with angle buttresses, has a large 4-light window with bar tracery
and foiled circles, gable coping with carved finial, and in east wall
3 chamfered lancets. C20 east window of 5 lights with Perpendicular-style
tracery. Additions on north side and east end in Perpendicular style, dated
1909 on north wall of vestry.

Interior: exceptionally wide interior space with 3 arcades: former nave has
late Norman 4-bay south arcade of quatrefoil piers with scalloped cushion
capitals, stepped semicircular arches; north arcade of octagonal columns with
moulded caps carrying double-chamfered 2-centred arches; chancel to this nave
has on each side a 2-centred arch moulded in 2 orders with responds composed
of 3 slender detached shafts with annular caps, round a circular core; south
transept arch with single detached shafts; in this transept a C17 pew of
Calverley family of Esholt lettered "WC", and enclosed by this a medieval
piscina; various wall monuments.

Listing NGR: SE1941542142

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Oswald at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17530487

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)