Church of Saint Oswald

St Oswald's Church, Malpas
St Oswald's Church, Malpas, from the southeast
St Oswald's Church, Malpas Location in Cheshire
Coordinates: 53°01′10″N 2°46′01″W / 53.0195°N 2.7670°W / 53.0195; -2.7670
OS grid reference	SJ 485 472
Location	Malpas, Cheshire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	St Oswald, Malpas
History
Dedication	Saint Oswald
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade I
Designated	1 March 1967
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic
Specifications
Materials	Red sandstone
Administration
Parish	St. Oswald Malpas and St. John Threapwood
Deanery	Malpas
Archdeaconry	Chester
Diocese	Chester
Province	York
Clergy
Rector	Revd Canon Ian Arthan Davenport

St Oswald's Church stands on the highest point in the market town of Malpas, Cheshire, England, on or near the site of a Norman motte and bailey castle. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building and is recognised as being one of the best examples in Cheshire of a late 15th to early 16th-century church. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Malpas. Its benefice is combined with those of St John, Threapwood, and Holy Trinity, Bickerton.Alec Clifton-Taylor includes it in his list of 'best' English parish churches.

The church is dedicated to Saint Oswald. The present church was built in the second half of the 14th century on the site of an earlier church, although there are no structural remains of that building. A stone from the previous church was incorporated above the chancel door of Trinity Church in Princeton, New Jersey, to which the influential had emigrated from Malpas. The church was largely rebuilt above the cill level with the addition of a clerestory in the late 15th century. In about 1886 the Chester architect John Douglas carried out a restoration, which included removal of the box pews and plaster from its interior.