Church of St Matthias
CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242002
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Matthias
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242002
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Matthias
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS, CHURCH LANE
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, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Stoke-on-Trent (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 86917 42674
Details
SJ 84 SE STOKE ON TRENT CHURCH LANE, Hanford
613-0/6/10018 Church of St Matthias
II
Anglican church. 1862 chancel added by T. H. Rushworth; remainder rebuilt in 1868 by Charles Lynam. Flemish and English bond red brick and stone dressings. Plain clay tile roofs with gabled ends and eaves with exposed rafter ends. High Victorian Gothic chancel added in 1862; existing church rebuilt in 1868 comprising 5-bay nave with a gallery at the west end, north and south aisles, small south west tower and south porch. EXTERIOR: The aisles have 1,2 and 3-light stone lancets and the clerestory windows have 2 lights with shouldered heads. 4-light west window with plate tracery. Small brick tower on south west comer with timber lattice belfry and short pyramidal tiled spire with weathervane. Two-centred arch south doorway with plank doors with wrought-iron hinges and large open timber porch with wrought-iron gates. The chancel has large buttresses with weathered and gableted set-offs, continuous moulded strings which forms cills and hoods to small lancets, moulded stone eaves cornice, triple lancet east window with hoodmould. INTERIOR: Unaltered interior with exposed brick walls and arch-braced nave roof 5-bay north and south arcades with chamfered brick 2-centred arches on piers with blue brick shafts and moulded stone capitals. Gallery at west end with wooden lattice balustrade. Chancel has stone vaulted roof with transverse ribs and clerestory with round-arch arcade on squat colonnettes with carved capitals; chancel arch is on similar colonnettes on corbels and the east window's triple lancets have shafts and moulded arches. Furnishings intact including inlaid marble reredos, Gothic stone pulpit, choir stalls with wrought-iron stanchions, benches and encaustic floor tiles. SOURCE: Buildings of England, Staffordshire, p.266.
Listing NGR: SJ8691742674
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441342
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 266
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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