Church of St Oswald is a Grade II* listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 June 1966. Church.
Church of St Oswald
- WRENN ID
- low-rampart-bistre
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Bridlington and The Wolds MP: Charlie Dewhirst (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1966
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Oswald, Church Street, Flamborough
- OS grid reference
- TA 226 701
- Coordinates
- 54.11268, -0.12582
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Oswald is a Grade II* listed building located in Flamborough, dating back to around 1100 but largely rebuilt in 1864 by R G Smith of Hull. The church features a south porch added in 1893 and a west tower completed in 1896. It is constructed from ashlar stone with cobbles and has slate roofs.
The architectural layout includes a west tower, a four-bay aisled nave, a south porch, and a chancel. The chancel aisles are adorned with three-light flat-headed windows that have trefoils, while the clerestory features circular windows with cusped cross-tracery. The nave aisles contain two-light windows with cusped ogee tracery, and the nave clerestory has plain two-light windows with stone mullions set under square heads.
The three-stage west tower is marked by a plinth and string-courses separating the stages, with clasping buttresses on the lower stage. It has a three-light west window and two-light belfry openings, all showcasing Perpendicular tracery. A sculpted figure is located in a canopied niche on the south wall of the tower at the first floor. The building has coped gables throughout, with a cross finial atop the chancel.
Inside, the nave arcades are supported by octagonal piers and feature pointed arches of two orders with broad chamfers. The 12th-century chancel arch is richly decorated with roll-mouldings, complemented by an additional roll on the nave and scalloped capitals. A 15th-century chancel screen, likely from Bridlington Priory, has a central opening flanked by two two-light openings with fretted tracery. Above it, a rood loft is adorned with 15 canopies featuring crocketed finials, all under a running vine-scroll with a fretted band above. The church also contains a 12th-century font decorated with all-over lozenge ornament and a fragment of an effigy with a toad at the heart beneath a brass inscription to Sir Marmaduke Constable, who died in 1520, located to the north of the altar. Notably, Andrew Marvell, the father of the poet, served as the incumbent here from 1609 to 1612.
Local climate
Church of St Oswald receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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