Church Of St. Oswald

The Church of St. Oswald is a Grade II listed building dating from the late 15th century, with a 14th-century south aisle wall and a 16th-century north aisle and north arcade. It was restored in 1848, when the south arcade was rebuilt, and in 1842, when the clearstorey and north aisle windows were renewed, and the roof was reconstructed. The church features a pebbledashed exterior with sandstone dressings and a slate roof.

The structure includes a west tower, north and south aisles with clearstoreys, and a chancel that is roofed continuously with the nave. The tower is supported by diagonal buttresses and has a late 19th-century battlemented parapet with pinnacles and three-light bell openings. The west wall contains a doorway with two chamfered orders and a hood mould, which is now partly blocked. The north aisle features mullioned windows with round-headed lights, and at the west end, there is another doorway with two hollow-chamfered orders and a hood mould, above which is a small niche with an ogee head and a decorated shield.

The north and east chancel windows are late 19th-century with perpendicular tracery. The south aisle has a late 15th-century window with perpendicular tracery in its east wall and two similar windows with square heads in the south wall. Each side of the 19th-century south porch has an early 14th-century window with reticulated tracery.

Inside, the church has six-bay arcades supported by octagonal piers and lacks a chancel arch. In the chapel at the east end of the south aisle, there is a triple sedilia with trefoil arches. A stone block with the coat of arms of The Washington Family is set into the tower wall, having formerly been on the outside of the tower. The cylindrical font at the west end of the south aisle is set on a base dated '1661'. The roof features softwood king posts and cusped decoration, and the windows contain glass from various 19th-century dates.