The Church of Grasmere: A History

The book offers a concise, evidence-based history of St. Oswald's parish church and its parish, tracing ecclesiastical jurisdiction, boundaries, patrons, monastic oversight, and lists of clergy from early records through the Civil Wars and Commonwealth. It documents the building and fittings—bells, bench-ends, font, doors—and gathers churchwardens' accounts, repairs, inscriptions, and illustrations. Later sections treat chapelries, curates, schools, registers, charities, church rates and customs such as rush-bearing, combining archival excerpts, maps, and material descriptions to illuminate local religious life and administration.