Church of St Oswald is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Church of St Oswald
- WRENN ID
- scattered-fireplace-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Oswald, Bollington Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 921 772
- Coordinates
- 53.29204, -2.11907
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Oswald, built in 1908 by F P Oakley, is a Grade II listed building located on Bollington Road. It features irregularly coursed buff sandstone with sandstone dressings and a red tile roof, complete with stone-coped gables and a stone chimney for the vestry. The church is designed in a florid Decorated style and has a layout that runs from north to south, consisting of a nave with four bays and an L-shaped chancel. It also includes an east aisle, a west porch, and a south-east porch.
The nave bays are separated by buttresses and contain three-light windows with reticulated tracery. The south window mirrors this design but is positioned above a castellated bay window of the baptistery. The south-east porch features a segmental headed doorcase adorned with carved oak leaf panels. The east aisle has triple trefoil-headed lights set in rectangular surrounds.
Inside, the church has dark red brick walls complemented by buff sandstone dressings. The interior includes four bay arcades supported by diamond-sectioned piers and a plain pointed chancel arch. The nave boasts a pine hammer beam roof, which springs from stone corbels and includes cusped wind braces, while the chancel features a wagon roof.
Local climate
Church of St Oswald sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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