Church Of St Oswald

The Church of St Oswald is a parish church dating from 1909 to 1914, constructed in the Gothic Revival style. It is built of ashlar with ashlar dressings and has slate roofs. The plan incorporates a chancel with a south-east chapel and north-east vestry, both with basements, double-gabled transepts, a nave with a clerestory and aisles, and an incomplete base for a south-west tower.

The exterior features a chamfered plinth, buttresses, coped gables, and mainly hood-moulded windows. The chancel east gable includes a string course and a five-light pointed arched window with an extended hoodmould. Basement windows are arranged 1:3:1. The south-east chapel has a polygonal apse with a single lancet window, while the south side displays two graduated triple lancets. The vestry has plain triple lancets to the east, with paired basement windows below. The north side has two chamfered doorways and a three-light mullioned window. The west gable of the nave displays a double lancet. Double-gabled transepts feature two graduated triple lancets, and the south transept has a lean-to east porch with a chamfered doorway and a single lancet. The nave clerestory features ten plain double lancets on each side. The incomplete tower base has a felted pyramidal roof, a molded west doorway with a glazed screen, and a single lancet to the south. A south porch, situated between the tower and aisle, contains a graduated triple lancet. The hipped north porch has a door to the east and a single lancet to the north.

Inside, the chancel features a moulded and chamfered arch with a hoodmould, clustered shaft responds, and a Perpendicular style wooden war memorial screen dating from around 1920. It has a sillband, arch braced wagon roof, and a western arch, that to the north housing an organ. A memorial window from 1915 is located at the east end. The south-east chapel contains a traceried wooden screen from 1912, and a similar screen flanks the north-west arch. Stained glass windows are mostly from around 1910. The transepts have gabled roofs and segmental arches leading to the south-east chapel and organ chamber.

The nave has five-bay arcades with round piers with nailhead capitals, and double chamfered arches with hoodmoulds. It also has a clerestory sillband and an arch braced wagon roof with wall shafts. The narthex has an arch with chamfered piers. The aisles have lean-to roofs, west doors with hoodmoulds, and segmental pointed arches with lozenge-shaped piers at the east ends. Fittings include a Perpendicular style wooden reredos, screen, and rood, dating from around 1920, alongside a brass and iron reading desk and an octagonal marble font, all from the early 20th century.