More information : (TA 11788106) St Oswald's Church (C of E) (NAT) (1)
TA 11 81 FILEY CHURCH CLIFF DRIVE (south-east side, off) 10/6
Church of St Oswald 24.10.50 GV I
Church. C12 and C13 with C15 battlements; restored and partly
rebuilt in 1885 by W S Barber; roof partly rebuilt in 1908 after
a fire; C19 south porch; C20 vestry and north porch. Dressed
sandstone; slate and lead roofs. 6-bay aisled nave with
clerestory, transepts and crossing tower, chancel and north and
south porches. 2-stage, embattled crossing tower with 2-light
pointed bell openings under a round-headed arch; continuous sill
band. South door to nave of four orders with moulded round
arches interrupted by later inserted stoup. Vertical slit window
in west end, originally intended to light a west tower stair
turret. Impost band to aisles and nave. Transepts have stepped
angle buttresses and a continuous sill band. Chancel has a
pointed Priest's Door under a corbelled dripmould in south wall,
with a mass clock and C17 bronze sundial inscribed in Greek to
the right. Group of 3 stepped lancets in the east end, under a
continuous hoodmould. Diagonal buttresses. Lancet windows
throughout, those in the chancel and transepts dating from
C12/C13, the remainder from C19. Embattled parapet over corbel
table throughout. Interior: nave arcades have tripartite
responds with the middle shaft keeled, alternating rounds and
octagonal piers with moulded capitals and chamfered pointed
arches. Deeply-splayed round-headed clerestory openings; similar
openings at west end of north aisle. Sedilia with trefoil head
to chancel and south transept; piscina to each transept. Other
furnishings include; a late C13 carved wooden figure in the
south aisle; a sealed altar slab carved with 5 crosses in the
sanctuary; a C13 plain bowl font on a cylindrical shaft; a
hatchment over the north door. (2)
Church of 12th- and 13th-century date with 15th-century battlement restored and partly rebuilt in 1885 by WS Barber; roof partly rebuilt in 1908 after fire, 6-bay nave with clerestory, transepts and crossing tower, possibly 8th-century interlace stone used as a step within tower; 19th-century S porch; 20th-century vestry and N porch. dressed sandstone; slate and lead roofs. Grade I listed. (3)
In the lead of the tower roof are many examples of graffiti, including initials from visitors accompanied by a number of crude Hammer Stamped drawings of ships, hands, shoes and feet. The earliest depicted date is 1668, with several from the C18 and C19 with the latest being dated 1981. (4-5)
A number of the crew of the English drifter JOAN MARGARET (see 1550797) which foundered in 1941 after being mined in the Humber were buried in St. Oswald's Churchyard. (6)
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