Church of St Matthias
CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS, ST MATTHIAS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078254
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Matthias
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS, ST MATTHIAS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078254
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Matthias
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS, ST MATTHIAS ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS, ST MATTHIAS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 58557 40436
Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK54SE ST MATTHIAS ROAD, Sneinton 646-1/4/606 (East side) 12/07/72 Church of St Matthias
GV II
Parish church. 1867-68. By TC Hine of Nottingham. Chancel rebuilt c1950 following war damage. Rockfaced Bulwell stone with blue lias limestone bands, ashlar dressings and concrete tile roofs. Gothic Revival style. Plinth. PLAN: nave with clerestory and western bellcote, apsidal chancel, vestry and organ chamber, vestigial aisles and transepts, south porch. EXTERIOR: apse has conical slate roof and 2 lancets. Nave has unusual continuous clerestory with cast-iron traceried windows. West end has appointed arched recess with 2 shouldered doors, and above, a triple lancet. Above again, a round window with plate tracery and a gabled bellcote with 3 openings. Transepts have coped gables and double lancets, with a round window above. Vestry, to south-east, has a window on each side. South porch has coped gable and chamfered pointed arched doorway. 2 round windows on each side. INTERIOR: painted brick, has pointed chancel arch and side arches with round columns and foliage capitals. Oval light above. Vaulted apse with stained glass windows, 1913 and 1918. Nave has an unusual truss roof with laminated wood arch braces on turned wooden arcade posts. Turned wooden struts and matchboard ceilings. Transepts have 3 stained glass windows, late C19 and early C20. Fittings include original octagonal font, square wooden pulpit on ashlar base, and benches. Laminated wood was sometimes used for curved roof members in large C19 buildings, eg King's Cross Station (Lewis Cubitt, 1851) and Lincoln Corn Exchange (Bellamy & Hardy, 1870), and the Old Malt Cross Music Hall St James's Street, Nottingham (qv) (Edwin Hill 1877). (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 250; Curl JS: Victorian Architecture: London: 1990-: 210).
Listing NGR: SK5855740436
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458580
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Curl, JS, Victorian Architecture, (1990), 210
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 250
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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