Church Of St Oswald

The Church of St Oswald is a church built in 1927 by P Hartland Thomas, located in Bedminster Down, Bristol. It is constructed from reinforced concrete with Pennant rubble and limestone window dressings, topped with a pantile roof. The church features an aisled nave, a chancel, a southeast porch, and a west tower, all designed in a modernist Perpendicular Gothic Revival style.

The chancel gable includes a two-centred arched five-light window with king mullions and angle buttresses, while the nave gable is raised and shallower. The north elevation of the chancel has three bays with small cusped windows beneath the eaves, buttresses in between, and a doorway in the west bay. The north aisle elevation has four bays with full-height walls and a tall parapet, featuring large two-centred arched five-light windows that extend to the ground, each with cusped heads and buttresses in between. The south elevation mirrors this, with a parapeted porch at the east end of the nave that has three stepped two-centre arches leading to the doorway.

The squat tower is supported by angle buttresses and has a parapet. It features a two-centred arched west door, a five-light window above with oval tracery bars set in the centre of the mullions, and a louvred three-light mullion belfry window.

Inside, the church has a pointed tunnel vault resting on a continuous beam supported by square ashlar piers. Thin lateral aisle arches cross the narrow aisles, with grilles above, and there are steps leading up to the tower.