Description

SJ 97 NW BOLLINGTON BOLLINGTON ROAD (North Side)

2/8 Church of St. Oswald.

II

Church: 1908 by F P Oakley. Irregularly coursed buff sandstone with sandstone dressings, red tile roof with stone-coped gables and stone chimney to vestry. Florid Decorated style. North to south layout of nave of 4 bays and l-bay chancel in one range. East aisle, west porch and south-east porch. Buttresses divide nave bays which contain 3-light windows with reticulated tracery. South window similar but above castellated bay window of baptistery. Segmental headed doorcase to south-east porch has carved oak leaf panels. East aisle has triple trefoil-headed lights in rectangular surrounds. Interior: Dark red brick with buff sandstone dressings. 4 bay arcades on diamond sectioned piers and a plain pointed chancel arch. Pine hammer beam roof to nave, sprung from stone corbels, has cusped wind braces. Chancel has wagon roof. (Pevsner and Hubbard).

Listing NGR: SJ9216077236

External Links

• St Oswald's Church, Bollington at Wikipedia
• St Oswald's Church, Bollington official website
• Wikidata Q7595007

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)