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CHURCH OF ST OSWALD

CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, CHURCH SIDE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1135664
Date first listed:: 04-Jun-1964
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST OSWALD
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, CHURCH SIDE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1135664
Date first listed:: 04-Jun-1964
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST OSWALD
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, CHURCH SIDE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, CHURCH SIDE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 39108 26620

Details

SE 32 NE ROTHWELL CHURCH SIDE LS26 (west side) Methley

6/74 Church of St. Oswald 5th June 1964

GV I

Parish church. C14 and C15, restored and renewed in C19 and early C20. Squared sandstone, shallow-pitched roof concealed by parapet. West tower, nave with south aisle, chancel with south chapel and north vestry. Three-stage Perpendicular-style tower with diagonal buttresses has west door, 3-light window with Perpendicular tracery, louvred 2-light belfry windows, corbelled-out embattled parapet with crocketed corner pinnacles. Three-bay buttressed south aisle has C19 gabled porch, a 2-light window on each side of this, and in the 3rd bay a 3-light window with reticulated tracery. Two-bay chapel has large 4-light windows with Perpendicular tracery. Chancel, rebuilt 1926, has a 5-light east window in Perpendicular style. North wall of nave, 4 bays, with buttresses, has a shallow porch to the 2nd bay, three 3-light windows with reticulated tracery, and 4 square-headed clerestory windows each of 2 cusped lights.

Interior: early C14 three-bay aisle arcade of double-chamfered 2-centred arches carried on short octagonal columns with moulded caps; double-chamfered chancel arch springing from figured corbels; king-post roof trusses of shallow pitch with arch-bracing from stone corbels depicting angels with Instruments of the Passion, trefoil-headed panels over the tie-beams; early C18 wooden pulpit, octagonal with fluted pilasters and fielded panels; exceptionally fine collection of monuments, principally: tomb chest of Sir Robert Waterton (d.1424) and wife, with recumbent alabaster effigies, under a crocketed canopy; Lord Welles (d.1461) and wife, with recumbent alabaster effigies; Sir John Savile (d.1606), with his son Sir Henry (d.1632) and his wife, on tall tomb chest with black Ionic columns; Charles Savile (d.1741) reclining on large lettered base with mourning wife seated beside him (by Scheemakers); John Savile, 1st Earl of Mexborough (d.1778), with semi-reclining figure pointing upwards (by Wilton). For further details see Pevsner.

Listing NGR: SE3911026622

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 342069
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.