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SK38SW BANNERDALE ROAD 784-1/9/57 (North East side) 28/06/73 Church of St Oswald (Formerly Listed as: BANNERDALE ROAD Church of St Oswald, Millhouses)

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Parish church. Dated 1909-1914. Ashlar with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Gothic Revival style. PLAN: chancel with south-east chapel and north-east vestry, all with basement; double gabled transepts, nave with clerestory and aisles; incomplete base of south-west tower, porches. EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth, buttresses, coped gables. Windows mainly have hoodmoulds. Chancel east gable has string course and a 5-light pointed arched window with extended hoodmould. Below, basement windows arranged 1:3:1. On either side, a double lancet with hoodmould. South-east chapel has a polygonal apse with a single lancet. South side has 2 graduated triple lancets. Vestry has 2 plain triple lancets to east, and below, 2 paired basement windows. North side has 2 chamfered doorways and a 3-light mullioned window. West gable has a double lancet. Double gabled transepts have 2 graduated triple lancets. South transept has lean-to east porch with chamfered doorway and single lancet. Nave clerestory has 10 plain double lancets on each side. West gable has plain lancets arranged 1:2:1, with 3 smaller lancets to narthex below. Aisles have 5 single lancets. Tower base has felted pyramidal roof and moulded west doorway with glazed screen. Double lancet to south. South porch, between tower and aisle, has a graduated triple lancet. Hipped north porch has a door to east and a single lancet to north. INTERIOR: chancel has moulded and chamfered arch with hoodmould and clustered shaft responds with Perpendicular style wooden war memorial screen, c1920. Sillband and arch braced wagon roof. On either side, a western arch, that to north with organ, flanked to east by a doorway. East end has a memorial window, 1915. South-east chapel has a traceried wooden screen, 1912, and a similar screen in the north-west arch. Eastern and south-eastern stained glass windows c1910. Transepts have gabled roofs and on their east sides, segmental arches into south-east chapel and organ chamber. Nave has 5 bay arcades with round piers with nailhead capitals, and double chamfered arches with hoodmoulds. Clerestory sillband. Arch braced wagon roof with wall shafts. Narthex has arch with chamfered piers. Aisles have lean-to roofs, west doors with hoodmoulds, and at the east ends, double segmental pointed arches with lozenge shaped piers. Fittings include Perpendicular style wooden reredos, screen and rood, c1920, brass and iron reading desk and octagonal marble font, all early C20.

Listing NGR: SK3412383947

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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