St Oswald's Church, Bollington

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Coordinates: 53°17′31″N 2°07′08″W / 53.2920°N 2.1190°W / 53.2920; -2.1190
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St Oswald's Church, Bollington
Style
Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking1907
Completed1908
Specifications
MaterialsSandstone, tiled roofs
Administration
ProvinceYork
DioceseChester
ArchdeaconryMacclesfield
DeaneryMacclesfield
ParishBollington
Clergy
Vicar(s)Revd Nancy Goodrich

St Oswald's Church is in Bollington Cross,

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]

History

St Oswald's was built in 1907–08 to a design by F. P. Oakley,

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

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]

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References

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  1. ^ The Parish Church of St Oswald, Bollington, Church of England, retrieved 1 March 2012
  2. ^ a b c Historic England, "Church of St Oswald, Bollington (1138992)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 1 March 2012
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6
  4. ^ a b St Oswald Bollington, Bollington Parish, retrieved 1 March 2012
  5. National Pipe Organ Register, British Institute of Organ Studies
    , retrieved 1 July 2020
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