Church Of St Oswald

NZ 53 SW 4/47

HARTLEPOOL BROUGHAM TERRACE (north side) Church of St. Oswald

II

Church, 1897-1904, by W.S. Hicks. Dressed, snecked limestone, with quoins; Lakeland slate roof. Quasi-Perpendicular style. High clearstoried and aisled nave and chancel, transepts, and west tower with north and south porches. 4-stage tower has set-back buttresses; 2-centred window to west face with reticulated tracery; louvred 2-centred belfry windows, each in pointed opening under ogee-arched hoodmould with grotesque stops. Embattled parapet has crocketed pinnacles at angles and to merlons. Flat-roofed porches have straight parapets, diagonal buttresses, and 2-centred doorways in 3 moulded planes, with blind rectilinear traceries in tympana. Trefoil-headed ogee-arched niches above doorways hold figures of St. Oswald. 4-bay nave and 3-bay chancel (5 bays and 2 bays internally) have gabled buttresses between 2-centred clearstorey and east windows with reticulated traceries and stopped hoodmould. Octagonal turrets mark external division between nave and chancel. Straight parapet to nave, embattled to chancel. Flat-roofed south transept. Buttressed aisles have paired trefoil-headed lights in chamfered rectangular openings. Similar 3-light windows to south transept. Buttressed aisles have paired trefoil-headed lights in chamfered rectangular openings. Similar 3-light windows to south transept. Tall tower arch with quadruple chamfer. 5-bay double-chamfered nave arcades have octagonal, round, and compound piers with stiff-leaf and moulded capitals. Similar single arch to each side of chancel, that to north side being full height of gabled transept containing organ of 1928. Italian and French marble sanctuary and altar steps. Enriched, pinnacled, carved oak reredos, by R. Hedley (Newcastle) has figures of saints and Resurrected Christ in niches by J. Eadie Reid. Carved oak rood beam with vine brattishing, groining, traceries, crucifix and pendants, also by Hedley. Coupled rafter roof with iron collars. In south transept (Lady Chapel): gilded, carved oak reredos with figures of angels and oil paintings of Crucifixion; and wrought iron screen and gates by J.R. Crimson (Gateshead). Chamfered octagonal drum font of pink alabaster, on octagonal stone step; sides have crocketed ogee niches holding figures of saints and angels; broad plinth carved and inscribed by R. Beall (Newcastle). Enriched oak font cover, supported on 4 angle shafts, has heavily carved and ornamented lofty turret, by R. Hedley. Stained glass to east window and south transept by H.W. Bryams (London). Good stained glass of 1918 and 1931, to south aisle.

Listing NGR: NZ5068533490