Church Of St Oswald

SE 24 NW LEATHLEY LEATHLEY LANE (west side, off) 4/42 Church of St Oswald

22.11.66

GV I

Church of St Oswald. C12 and C15/16, restored 1869. Coursed gritstone rubble in tower, remainder ashlar, stone slate roof. West tower; 2-bay nave with north and south aisles and south porch; chancel of 2 bays with organ chamber on north side and vestry on south side. Tower of 4 stages, slight quoins, a narrow single-splayed window to stages 2 and 3 and a larger, round-headed belfry window. Pyramidal roof. Shallow pointed arch to south porch and round headed 3-light mullioned windows to south aisle and chancel. C19 gabled windows, Perpendicular style, at east end of south aisle wall and chancel. Interior: west wall of nave has round-headed, quoined and voussoired arch and fine door with elaborate wrought-iron strap hinges and decoration, probably C12 or C13. Above it a single-splayed window looking into the second stage of the tower. The 2-bay nave arcades have octagonal piers with roll-mouldings and emblems in relief on capitals. Unmoulded, round-headed chancel arch. Chancel has piscina with triangular canopy and crocketted finials, south side. Memorials to Hitch family on chancel walls. The restoration of 1869 included a new roof, the replacement of the box pews and the insertion of the organ into the north aisle chapel. H Speight, Upper Wharfedale, London, 1900, p 119. N Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding,' 1967, p 301.

Listing NGR: SE2318847012