Church Of St Oswald is a Grade II* listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1967. Church.
Church Of St Oswald
- WRENN ID
- dusk-stone-pigeon
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1967
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Oswald is a Grade II* listed building dating from the late 14th century. It is constructed of rubble with a Welsh slate roof and features a west tower, a nave and chancel combined, a south porch, and a north heating chamber. The two-storey west tower has quoined corners and includes a single-light, pointed-arch west window with a label, and above it, a two-light belfry opening without a mullion, featuring trefoiled heads on a monolithic lintel. There is also a single lancet window on the south side. The gabled porch has shaped kneelers and ashlar copings, with a concrete interior. The south doorway is adorned with a continuous hollow-chamfer and a matching label.
The nave and chancel are supported by offset diagonal buttresses and have three two-light windows with curvilinear tracery, some of which have been recut. The first two windows include a transom, and there is a low-side lancet window between the first and second windows. The exterior also features three gargoyles and a parapet. The east window is three-light with curvilinear tracery and a transom, and there is a small circular window in the roof void, topped with a gable finial.
Inside, the tower arch consists of two chamfered orders, with the inner order resting on corbels and the outer featuring stops, along with fragments of earlier carved stones incorporated into the jambs. Corbels for a rood beam are present, along with a low-side window and a trefoil-headed piscina with a broken basin located in the chapel that was formerly below the rood screen. The chancel includes cusped ogee-headed niches with labels flanking the east window, an ogee-headed piscina with a label, and niches on the sides for cruets. There is also a three-seater sedilia with cusped trefoiled heads, a label with heads in the center, and flowers at the ends, along with trefoil-headed openings piercing the divisions. In the nave, the font has a hexagonal basin, slightly shafted at three angles, resting on a hexagonal stem and base. A medieval corbel in the north wall is inscribed "Tomas Ro", and there is a coat of arms from the reign of George IV.
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