Church Of St Oswald

The Church of St Oswald is a Grade II* listed building located in Newton-under-Roseberry. It dates back to the 12th century, built on an earlier foundation on the north side. The chancel was added in 1857, while the west tower was constructed in 1901 by Temple Moore. The mid to late 17th-century porch is also a notable feature. The church is primarily made of dressed sandstone, with the tower built from sandstone ashlar, and it has Westmorland slate roofs.

A blocked round-headed doorway can be found in the north wall of the nave. Many of the openings in the nave and chancel were either inserted or altered between the mid-19th century and early 20th century. The gabled porch is topped with a Columbus cross finial and features a medieval grave cover used as a lintel. The tower is broad and squat, consisting of three stages, with an embattled parapet, angle buttresses, and an Anglo-Saxon carved corner stone on the south side of the vice.

Inside, the tower is open to the full height of the nave, supported by a two-centred arch with an inner vestry screen wall. The chancel arch from the 12th century has squints on either side, measuring 10 centimeters square. There are traces of a medieval fresco on the south wall of the nave, and a medieval cross-head serves as a lintel above a piscina dating from around 1900. The church also features a Norman circular drum-shaped font, which is decorated with continuous intersecting blind arcading, imposts, and cable moulding at the rim.