St Oswald's Church, Bollington

St Oswald's Church is in Bollington Cross, Bollington, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Macclesfield, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester.[1] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[2]

St Oswald's Church, Bollington
St Oswald's Church, Bollington
Location in Cheshire
OS grid referenceSJ 922 772
LocationBollington Cross, Bollington, Cheshire
CountryEngland
DenominationAnglican
Website
History
StatusParish church
DedicationSaint Oswald
Consecrated22 October 1908
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Heritage designationGrade II
Designated9 December 1983
Architect(s)F. P. Oakley
Architectural typeChurch
StyleGothic Revival
Groundbreaking1907
Completed1908
Specifications
MaterialsSandstone, tiled roofs
Administration
ParishBollington
DeaneryMacclesfield
ArchdeaconryMacclesfield
DioceseChester
ProvinceYork
Clergy
Vicar(s)Revd Canon Veronica Hydon

History

St Oswald's was built in 1907–08 to a design by F. P. Oakley,[3] and consecrated on 22 October 1908.[4] In the 2000s two local Anglican churches closed, the Church of St John the Baptist in 2003, and the mission church of Holy Trinity in 2010. Consequently, St Oswald's has become the parish church of Bollington.[4]

Architecture

The church is constructed in buff sandstone. It has a red tiled roof, stone copings, and there is a stone chimney rising from the vestry. Its architectural style is florid Decorated. The church is orientated north-south, and consists of a four-bay nave with a single-bay chancel in one range, an east aisle, and porches on the west side and at the southeast corner. The bays on the west wall of the nave are separated by buttresses, each bay containing a three-light window with reticulated tracery. At the south end is a castellated bow window for the baptistry, above which is a three light window. The aisle has three-light windows with trefoil heads in rectangular surrounds.[2]

The interior of the church is lined in brick with stone bands.[3] The four-bay arcade is carried on piers with a diamond cross-section. The nave has a hammerbeam roof, and the chancel a wagon roof.[2] In the chancel is a turquoise mosaic floor. The glass in the windows is clear, other than a stained glass window by Heaton, Butler and Bayne dated 1912, and one by W. J. Pearce dated 1916.[3] The two-manual organ dates from 1908, and was moved here in 1965, and installed by Charles Smethurst.[5]

See also

References
  1. The Parish Church of St Oswald, Bollington, Church of England, retrieved 1 March 2012
  2. Historic England, "Church of St Oswald, Bollington (1138992)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 1 March 2012
  3. Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 165, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6
  4. St Oswald Bollington, Bollington Parish, retrieved 1 March 2012
  5. "NPOR K00962", National Pipe Organ Register, British Institute of Organ Studies, retrieved 1 July 2020
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