Church of St Oswald is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1958. Church.
Church of St Oswald
- WRENN ID
- low-corner-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1958
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Oswald, Arncliffe, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 933 719
- Coordinates
- 54.14367, -2.10383
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Oswald is a Grade II listed building located in Arncliffe. The west tower dates back to the 15th century, while the nave was rebuilt around 1800 and restored in 1841, with further work on the chancel completed in 1843 by Anthony Salvin. The tower is constructed of limestone rubble, and the nave and chancel are made of coursed rubble with a grey slate roof.
The church features a west tower, a three-bay nave with a north aisle and a south porch, and a lower two-bay chancel. The tower has two stages with offset diagonal buttresses, a three-light restored perpendicular west window, and a clock on the south side. The belfry windows consist of two trefoil-headed lights beneath a continuous hoodmould, and the tower is topped with a restored embattled parapet featuring crocketed corner finials.
The body of the church includes offset buttresses, two-light perpendicular style windows, a low porch with a four-centred archway, and a three-light east window. Inside, the tower arch is supported by attached octagonal columns and features a pointed arch of two orders, one concave and one straight. Blocked windows, likely from the early 1800s construction, can be seen on the north and south walls of the nave. The chancel has a very wide depressed pointed arch, and the nave roof is supported by six queen-post trusses with cusped decoration. The east window glass was created by Wailes of Newcastle.
Local climate
Church of St Oswald sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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