- St Oswald's Church, Preesall
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St Oswald's, Preesall 
Location in Lancashire
Coordinates: 53°55′38″N 2°58′38″W / 53.9272°N 2.9771°W OS grid reference SD 35938 48334 Location Preesall, Lancashire Country England Denomination Anglican Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Architect(s) Hubert Austin Administration Deanery Garstang Archdeaconry Lancaster Diocese Blackburn Province York St Oswald's Church is an Anglican church in Preesall, a town on the Fylde coastal plain in Lancashire, England. It is an active parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn and the archdeaconry of Lancaster. It was built 1896–1898, designed by Hubert Austin, and has been designated a Grade II listed building by English Heritage.
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History and administration
St Oswald's was designed by Hubert Austin of Lancaster architectural firm Austin and Paley, and built 1896–1898.[1] Austin's signed architectural plans for the building hang inside the church.[1] It was originally a chapel of ease to St James' Church at nearby Stalmine.[2]
St Oswald's was designated a Grade II listed building by English Heritage on 3 October 1984.[3] The Grade II listing—the lowest of the three grades—is for buildings that are "nationally important and of special interest".[4] An active church in the Church of England, St Oswald's is part of the diocese of Blackburn, which is in the Province of York. It is in the archdeaconry of Lancaster, the Deanery of Garstang and the benefice of the Waterside Parishes of Hambleton, Out Rawcliffe and Preesall.
Architecture
The church is constructed of red brick with sandstone dressings; the roofs are slate.[3] The church plan consists of a nave and chancel, with a south aisle, transepts and bell turret (covered in shingles and with a short spire) towards the west end.[1] There is a porch to the south.[3] The windows are two-light, pointed headed, with quatrefoils.[3] There is a three-light west window and a four-light east window with cusped ogees.[3]
The internal walls of the nave are of red brick, and the chancel is sandstone.[3] The four-bay aisle has octagonal arcade piers.[1] Stained glass in the church includes work from the 1970s by J. Fisher and H. Harvey of Shrigley and Hunt.[1]
See also
- List of ecclesiastical works by Austin and Paley (1895–1914)
References
Footnotes
- ^ a b c d e Hartwell, p. 507
- ^ Farrer & Brownbill (1912), pp. 256–260
- ^ a b c d e f "Church of St Oswald", National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1361844, retrieved 11 May 2011
- ^ "Listed Buildings", National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/caring/listing/listed-buildings/, retrieved 11 May 2011
Sources
- Farrer, William; Brownbill, J., eds. (1912), "Townships — Preesall with Hackinsall", A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 7 (Constable), OCLC 59626695, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53232
- Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 0300126670
Categories:- Church of England churches in Lancashire
- Diocese of Blackburn
- Grade II listed buildings in Lancashire
- Grade II listed churches
- The Fylde
- Buildings and structures in Wyre
- Austin and Paley buildings
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