Church of Saint Oswald
CHURCH OF SAINT OSWALD, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1301613
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Oswald
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT OSWALD, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1301613
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Oswald
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT OSWALD, MARKET PLACE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT OSWALD, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Askrigg
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 94759 91015
Details
ASKRIGG MARKET PLACE SD 99 SW (west side) 19/24 Church of Saint Oswald 25.3.69 GV I Church. C15 with some earlier work and C19 alterations. Rubble, lead roofs. West tower, 5-bay nave and chancel in 1 with aisles, south porch. Quoins. Tower: 3 storeys. West face: ground-floor 2-light cinquefoiled window with Perpendicular tracery in straight-sided pointed arch with hoodmould; first-floor, single-light trefoiled window. 2-light belfry openings with trefoil heads and hoodmoulds; crenellated parapet and corner pinnacles. Porch: continuous hollow-moulded pointed archway. Stone benches. South doorway: continuous hollow-moulded pointed arch with animals on label stops. C19 Perpendicular-style priest's door. C19 2-light Perpendicular-style windows. Parapet. Clerestorey: windows of 3 pointed- arch lights; crenellated parapets. East window: Perpendicular-style, 5 lights with transom, of 1854 (Pevsner). Interior: stop-chamfered tower arch, and vault in tower of 4 pointed ribs with run-out chamfers. North arcade: Early English circular piers and capitals, double-chamfered depressed pointed arches. South arcade: Perpendicular piers and double- chamfered arches. Roofs: Perpendicular, with finely-moulded beams to nave and chancel. Concave-sided octagonal font on circular base. C19 font near priest's door. Hollow octagonal stone at west end. C19 panelled pews with doors. Coat of arms of George III over tower arch. Many fine C18 and early C19 wall monuments. C18 clock face over south door. VCH i, p 211.
Listing NGR: SD9476091015
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 323046
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York, (1907), 211
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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