Church of St Oswald is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1952. Church. 4 related planning applications.
Church of St Oswald
- WRENN ID
- odd-plinth-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool West Derby MP: Ian Byrne (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1952
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Oswald, St Oswald's Street, L13 5SB
- OS grid reference
- SJ 393 909
- Coordinates
- 53.41193, -2.91406
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Oswald is a Roman Catholic church located on St. Oswald's Street. It was designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and features a west tower with a broach spire, built in 1842. The remainder of the church was rebuilt between 1951 and 1957 by Adrian Gilbert Scott. The church is constructed of red sandstone, concrete, and brick.
The tower has diagonal buttresses and a pointed west entrance that lacks capitals, featuring a hood mould with head stops. Above the entrance is a three-light window with reticulated tracery. The third stage of the tower includes cusped lancets on three sides, while the top stage has paired two-light bell openings with geometrical tracery, situated above weathering. The broach spire is adorned with three tiers of lucarnes on alternate faces. There is also a canted stair turret on the south side, topped with a hipped stone roof. The rest of the church is noted to have no special interest.
Local climate
Church of St Oswald sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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