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St Oswald

St Oswald

West Rounton

North Yorkshire

C12,almost completely rebuilt 1860 in the Norman style by Pritchett.

Architectural Features

South side has central Norman style gabled porch.

Board door with original C12 doorway

All windows are Norman in style with incised zigzag work to round-arched heads and hoodmoulds.

Chancel: I bay, east window Norman in style with one order of nook-shafts.

Interior: chancel arch C12, one order of nook-shafts, scalloped capitals, stepped arch with much zigzagging.

Font: C12.

C19 plinth and round column, C12 round bowl with carving depicting a big bearded face, a centaur shooting an arrow towards it (sagittarius, and 2 affronted beasts with one human head in common).