St Oswalds Church

St Oswald's Church is a Church of England parish church positioned in Ashbourne, in the county of Derbyshire, England. The church is named after Oswald of Northumbria. A brass plaque in the chapel on the south side of the church commemorates its willpower on 24 April 1241 by way of Hugh de Pateshull, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. Architecturally, it dominates the small metropolis with its 212-foot spire which became stated via George Eliot as the "finest unmarried spire in England". It is stated that had been began in 1240 via Bishop Hugh de Pateshull. Construction likely lasted until the early 14th century.

It replaced an earlier Saxon church, and probably a second Norman one. From 1837 to 1840, it become restored by Lewis Nockalls Cottingham, after which inside the 1870s by means of George Gilbert Scott, who introduced the battlements to the chancel. Until Ashbourne Hall became partly demolished, it and St Oswald's were the metropolis's most important monuments, status at either give up of the primary road. The front to the corridor's grounds continued the primary street through excessive gates. As they were before the 18th century while the Boothby's rebuilt and refurbished their domestic, St Oswald's and its tower are all over again the important landmark, and the church is the metropolis's major appeal. The church is a Grade I indexed building.