Church Of St Oswald

The Church of St Oswald is a Grade I listed church located in Farnham, North Yorkshire. It dates back to the 12th century, with additions from the 13th and 14th centuries, a tower built around 1500, and restoration work completed in 1854 by G. G. Scott. The church is constructed of coursed squared limestone and gritstone, topped with a graduated stone slate roof.

The building features a 4-bay aisled nave with an enclosed western tower and a south porch at bay 1, along with a 4-bay chancel. The porch includes 19th-century Gothic style iron gates and double inner doors. The nave windows are of two lights and are designed in a 19th-century Gothic style on both the north and south sides. Stepped buttresses support the nave, and tall buttresses flank the three-light west window.

The tower rises above the nave roof line and has a belfry stage with two-light windows set in square chamfered surrounds. It is topped with a plain parapet featuring stone spouts and corner pinnacles. The chancel includes a restored round-headed 12th-century double-chamfered arched doorway, a low lancet window to the left, and three round-headed windows from the 12th century to the right. These windows are also repeated on the east side, with two narrow windows above, and the hoodmould of the doorway is carried around as a roll moulding at the sill level. The chancel features corbelled eaves and gable copings.

Inside, the tall chancel windows have an inner arcade on shafts that rise from a moulded sill. The north aisle has a 3-bay arcade supported by circular piers with moulded capitals, featuring pointed, chamfered arches with hoodmoulds. The south aisle arcade has octagonal piers and double-chamfered pointed arches. The aisles were extended by one bay to the west, and the tower was built outside the line of the west wall of the Norman nave, remnants of which are still visible. The tower features double-chamfered pointed arches on octagonal responds on three sides, and the added bay to the south arcade has foliage capitals on the responds. The chancel arch and fittings date from the 1854 restoration. Additionally, there are memorials to the Slingsby family of Scriven Park.