Church Of St Oswald

TA 11 81 10/6 24.10.50

FILEY CHURCH CLIFF DRIVE (south-east side, off) Church of St Oswald

GV I

Church. C12 and C13 with C15 battlements; restored and partly rebuilt in 1885 by W S Barber; roof partly rebuilt in 1908 after a fire; C19 south porch; C20 vestry and north porch. Dressed sandstone; slate and lead roofs. 6-bay aisled nave with clerestory, transepts and crossing tower, chancel and north and south porches. 2-stage, embattled crossing tower with 2-light pointed bell openings under a round-headed arch; countinuous sill band. South door to nave of four orders with moulded round arches interrupted by later inserted stoup. Vertical slit window in west end, originally intended to light a west tower stair turret. Impost band to aisles and nave. Transepts have stepped angle buttresses and a continuous sill band. Chancel has a pointed Priest's Door under a corbelled dripmould in south wall, with a mass clock and C17 bronze sundial inscribed in Greek to the right. Group of 3 stepped lancets in the east end, under a continuous hoodmould. Diagonal butresses. Lancet windows throughout, those in the chancel and transepts dating from C12/C13, the remainder from C19. Embattled parapet over corbel table throughout. Interior: nave arcades have tripartite responds with the middle shaft keeled, alternating round and octagonal piers with moulded capitals and chamfered pointed arches. Deeply-splayed round- headed clerestory openings; similar openings at west end of north aisle. Sedilia with trefoil head to chancel and south transept; piscina to each transept. Other furnishings include; a late C13 carved wooden figure in the south aisle; a sealed altar slab carved with 5 crosses in the sanctuary; a C13 plain bowl font on a cylindrical shaft; a hatchment over the north door.

Listing NGR: TA1177881065