Church of St Oswald is a Grade II* listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1970. A Victorian Church.
Church of St Oswald
- WRENN ID
- unlit-sentry-ebony
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Yardley MP: Jess Phillips (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1970
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Church of St Oswald, St Oswald's Road B10
- OS grid reference
- SP 101 856
- Coordinates
- 52.46835, -1.85173
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Oswald, located on St Oswald's Road in Small Heath, was begun in 1892 with the west front added in 1899. Designed by architect W H Bidlake, it is a striking church built of red brick with stone dressings. The church features a lofty nave with clerestory, four shallow aisles, transepts, and a chancel with a flat east end, all topped with steep tiled roofs. The prominent west front showcases a flat two-centred arch west window in a Decorated style, flanked by blind tracery panels and corner buttresses capped with octagonal stone spired pinnacles. The main gable is adorned with a canopied niche for a saint and a cross finial. The ground floor is largely blind, except for two lancet windows, and the west doors are set in cross wings beneath two-centred arches with three shafted orders. Inside, there is a four-bay nave arcade and a large, elaborately designed wooden altarpiece that includes a painting of the Crucifixion by S Meteyard, created in 1916.
Local climate
Church of St Oswald receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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