Church of St Oswald is a Grade II* listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Oswald
- WRENN ID
- hidden-trefoil-aspen
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1967
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Oswald, Brereton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 781 647
- Coordinates
- 53.17975, -2.32845
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Oswald is a Grade II* listed church located in Brereton Green, dating from around 1500 and restored in 1903. It is constructed of red sandstone and features a nave, aisles, an embraced west tower, a south porch, and a chancel. The three-stage west tower has a replaced door, a four-light panel-traceried west window, a small rectangular opening for the ringers' chamber, and two-light bell-openings on each face. It is topped with crenellation and four pinnacles, and has square buttresses at the west corners and one on the north and south at the east corners.
The nave and chancel are adorned with basket-arched windows, including six two-light windows on each side of the clerestory, three three-light windows on each aisle, one three-light window on each side of the chancel, and a five-light east window. The nave and aisles have plain parapets, while the chancel features crenellation.
Inside, the nave consists of four bays plus a tower bay, with simple arcades. The nave roof is a camber-beam panelled design, with a deep panelled truss between the nave and chancel, and three cambered beams in the chancel. There is a tablet commemorating William Brereton on the north wall of the chancel, and an octagonal font from 1660. The east window contains mid-19th century glass, while the west window features glass from 1853 by Wailes. Additionally, there is a monument to William and Frances Smethwicke, which includes half-length figures and dates from 1643. This church is noted for being an unusually complete example of late Perpendicular architecture.
Local climate
Church of St Oswald sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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