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Saint Oswald

Saint Oswald

East Hauxwell

North Yorkshire

C19 porch with Romanesque-style doorway in front of early C12 Romanesque doorway with scallop capitals to columns, zigzag, billet, and roll mouldings to arch and trellis motif in tympanum.

Architectural Features

Interior: C12 4-centred tower arch of 2 chamfered orders.

C13 chancel arch of 2 orders with rolls, cushion capitals and cabled abaci.

C14 arch of 2 chamfered orders to north chapel.

Octagonal font on C18 baluster shaft set on C13 column base.

Pulpit with Jacobean panels.

Under tower, 2 C15 bench ends with poppy-heads, pelican and griffin.

Hatchment of Mary Gale d. 1845.

Nave: 2 gesso effigies of Sir William de Barden, d. 1309, and his wife.

Chancel: floor slab in sanctuary to Mark Milbanks d. 1698.

North wall: brass to Henry Thoresby d. 1611, set in stone frame with trefoil.

Large monument with long inscription in Latin to William Dalton d. 1670/1, with torus of bayleaf garland around plaque, set in frame with swags of fruit and cherubs, with a broken pediment above containing a coat of arms on a cartouche.

Several fine C18 wall monuments including one in chancel to Sir Charles Dalton, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod d. 1747, "grandson of John Dalton killed at Burton on Trent conducting the Queen to Oxford 1644".