Church of St Oswald is a Grade II listed building in the North Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1967. Church.
Church of St Oswald
- WRENN ID
- fading-wall-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Kesteven
- Constituency
- Sleaford and North Hykeham MP: Dr Caroline Johnson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Oswald, High Street, Walcott
- OS grid reference
- TF 130 565
- Coordinates
- 53.09462, -0.31251
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Oswald is a parish church built in 1852. It is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs adorned with decorative ridge tiles. The church has an ashlar chamfered plinth and angle buttresses with ashlar set-offs. The nave consists of five bays, while the chancel has two bays. The west wall of the nave showcases three tall chamfered lancets set within a pointed arch chamfered surround, topped by a small gabled bellcote on the ashlar coped gable. The north wall of the nave contains two tall chamfered lancets in each bay, and the chancel features a single small chamfered lancet in each bay. The east wall displays three chamfered lancets, with the central one being taller. The south wall of the nave has a projecting gabled porch, which includes an ashlar coped gable with kneelers. The double chamfered archway is accentuated by an ashlar hoodmould with label stops. Inside, there is a chamfered and pointed chancel arch, along with 19th-century wooden pews, a pulpit, choir stalls, a reredos, and an altar. Additionally, there is an ashlar octagonal bowl and stem font.
Local climate
Church of St Oswald sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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