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Church of St Oswald

A Grade II Listed Building in Bishopsworth, City of Bristol

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4247 / 51°25'28"N

Longitude: -2.6177 / 2°37'3"W

OS Eastings: 357150

OS Northings: 169702

OS Grid: ST571697

Mapcode National: GBR C3X.04

Mapcode Global: VH88T.LG05

Plus Code: 9C3VC9FJ+VW

Entry Name: Church of St Oswald

Listing Date: 30 December 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1280903

English Heritage Legacy ID: 379109

ID on this website: 101280903

Location: St Oswald's Church, Bedminster Down, Bristol, BS13

County: City of Bristol

Electoral Ward/Division: Bishopsworth

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bristol

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol

Church of England Parish: Bedminster Down St Oswald

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

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Description



BRISTOL

ST56NE CHEDDAR GROVE, Bedminster Down
901-1/57/400 (North East side)
Church of St Oswald

II

Church. 1927. By P Hartland Thomas. Reinforced concrete with
Pennant rubble and limestone window dressings and a pantile
roof. Aisled nave, chancel, SE porch and W tower. Modernist
Perpendicular Gothic Revival style. Chancel gable has a
2-centred arched 5-light window with king mullions, and angle
buttresses; raised, shallower nave gable. 3-bay N elevation of
chancel has small cusped windows beneath the eaves, buttresses
between and a doorway in the W bay, 4-bay N aisle elevation
has full-height walls with a tall parapet, containing large
2-centred arched 5-light windows down to the ground with
cusped heads and buttreses between. Similar S elevation has a
parapeted porch to the E end of the nave with 3 stepped
2-centre arches to the doorway. A squat tower has angle
buttresses and a parapet, with a 2-centred arched W door, and
5-light window above with oval tracery bars set to the centre
of the mullions, and a louvred 3-light mullion belfry window.
INTERIOR: pointed tunnel vault on a continuous beam on square
ashlar piers, with thin lateral aisle arches across the narrow
aisles, with grilles above; steps up to the tower.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 418; The Buildings of England:
Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 455).


Listing NGR: ST5715069702

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