Church Of St Oswald Tower

HIGHNAM LASSINGTON SO 72 SE 3/57 Church of St. Oswald: tower 10-1-55 GV II* Tower to former parish church, now property of Redundant Churches Fund. Late C11, C14 top, east wall partly 1976 for R.C.F. Squared, coursed lias rubble, with quoins approaching ashlar: stone slate roof. Square tower. Tower in 3 stages, narrowing slightly at each: battered, rough plinth. South face: plain lowest stage, semi-circular headed lancet to second, head single block, slightly projecting stone above, possibly originally carved. Third stage wider lancet, single-stone head, ogee with trefoil below, stone louvres. Pyramid roof, iron cross to apex. West face narrow, semi-circular headed lancet to lowest stage, second plain, third as south. North face opening only in top stage, as on south side. East face partly renewed 1975-6, with new semi-circular headed doorway at foot, with late C19 boarded door with decorative ironmongery. No offset to first stage, only second, opening to top stage as other faces. Church re-dedicated on Palm Sunday, 1095. Nave and chancel heavily restored 1875 by Medland and Son, demolished 1975. (Notice on church; D. Verey, Gloucestershire, the Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970)

Listing NGR: SO7960121170