Church Of St Oswald

In the entry for the following:-

LS22 CHURCH LANE SE 34 NE (East side)

3/39 Church of St. Oswald

II The grade shall be amended to read II* (star)

COLLINGHAM CHURCH LANE SE34NE LS22 (east side)

3/39 Church of St. Oswald

II

Parish Church. C15 with Anglo-Saxon remains, chancel c1840, restored 1840-41. Well- coursed rubble to pre-Conquest work, large dressed stone to tower, hammer-dressed stone to C19 work, stone slate roof with clay tiles on chancel. West tower, nave, north aisle, south porch, chancel and north chancel chapel. Perpendicular tower, Early English lancet style restoration. Tower: 2 stages, chamfered plinth, moulded band. 3-light west window with arched lights and panel tracery, above is limestone block with shield in relief; moulded band; 2-light belfry windows set in square double-chamfered surrounds have arched lights with sunken spandrels south face has clock-face above small chamfered light. Embattled parapet with projecting rainwater chutes with gargoyles; crocketed corner pinnacles. Nave: red-sandstone quoins mark extent of original nave now of 3 bays articulated by offset buttress. South wall Anglo-Saxon. Gabled porch in 1st bay, lancet windows, corbel table. Coped gables with kneelers; apex cross. North aisle: 2-light windows with cusped lights, 2 with square heads, one with arched head with hoodmould. Right-hand return of aisle (east face) has 2-light window with shafted mullion and quatrefoil above at junction with canted stair-turret which has shouldered doorway and 2 small lancets in west face. Chancel: 2 bays articulated by offset buttresses. Lancet windows. Angle buttresses to east end which has triple lancet window. 2-light window to chapel.

Interior: much altered though the C12 circular pillars to the aisle-arcade remain. The rest is over elaborate C19 Early English with richly-moulded pointed arches to arcade, chancel and tower arch. Two important pre-Conquest cross shafts, one known as the Oswini Cross and claimed to be C7 and as such the 'oldest authentic Christian monument existing in the North of England', but now thought to be slightly later. This is carved with representations of the Apostles. the other is C9 or C10 and has intelace carving incorporating dragons and ruinic inscription in base.

R. A, Carter, Yorkshire Churches, (1976) p20. N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, (1974) p165. E. Pontefract and M. Hartley, The Charm of Yorkshire Churches, (undated) p16. G. E. Kirk, History of the Parish Church of St. Oswald, Collingham, (1937).

Listing NGR: SE3901546094