Description

NZ 40 SW WEST ROUNTON MAIN STREET (east side)

8/56 Church of St Oswald

- II*

Church. C12,almost completely rebuilt 1860 in the Norman style by Pritchett. Ashlar, coursed squared stone, Welsh slate roofs. Nave with south porch, lower chancel with north vestry. Nave: 3 bays. Pilaster buttresses to western corners. South side has central Norman style gabled porch. Board door with original C12 doorway; one order of nook-shafts, capitals with plait and volutes, zigzag moulded arch. All windows are Norman in style with incised zigzag work to round-arched heads and hoodmoulds. West window sightly more elaborate with nook-shafts, impost bands and moulded arch. Circular window above. Stone coping. Offset gabled bellcote with double-arched openings. Chancel: I bay, east window Norman in style with one order of nook-shafts. Stone coping with ridge cross. Interior: chancel arch C12, one order of nook-shafts, scalloped capitals, stepped arch with much zigzagging. Font: C12. C19 plinth and round column, C12 round bowl with carving depicting a big bearded face, a centaur shooting an arrow towards it (sagittarius, and 2 affronted beasts with one human head in common). C19 east window with nook-shafts and moulded arch.

Listing NGR: NZ4139003409

External Links

• Wikidata Q17535794

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