Church of St Matthew
CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, FRONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184890
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Matthew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, FRONT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184890
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Matthew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, FRONT STREET
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 MATTHEW, FRONT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 33980 51569
Details
NZ35SW HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING FRONT STREET (north side) Newbottle. 4/41 (Inset) Church of St. Matthew.
G.V. II
Parish church. 1885-6 by Oliver and Leeson of Newcastle; porch 1888. Rock- faced sandstone; Welsh slate roof. Nave with south porch, north and south double transepts, apsed chancel. Early English style.4-bay nave has groups of 3 lancets; paired lancets in each transept gable; paired lancets in 3-bay chancel and 3-sided apse; south porch has cusped arch with niche over. Roofs high-pitched; fiat stone coping at east end of nave; small slate-covered fleche over crossing has gablets over alternate louvres in the octagonal belfry; cross-finials of stone at west, iron at east and on fleche. Interior plain apart from west window: first World War memorial (in 3 paired lancets) depicts the Call of Matthew, the Transfiguration and the Raising of the Widow's Son. Other stained glass includes two windows in the north transept which came from the previous church on the site (built in 1850 and demolished to make way for the present building). Source: C.W. English, Diocese of Durham: Parish Church of St. Matthew, Newbottle Centenary 1850 - 1950. Manchester 1950.
Listing NGR: NZ3398051569
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303197
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
English, C W, Parish Church of St Matthew Newbottle Centenary 1850-1950, (1950)
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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