Church of St Matthew
CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262206
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Matthew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262206
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Matthew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW
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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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- North Warwickshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shuttington
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 25510 05207
Details
SHUTTINGTON SK2ONE Church of St Matthew 2/103
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Church. C12 and C14; west front altered and turret added c.1666 extensively restored and altered by W.H. Bidlake 1908-1909. Sandstone rubble; angles and west front of regular coursed sandstone. Old plain-tile roofs; coped west gable parapet has segmental pediment. 2-bay chancel, 3-bay nave. Romanesque style. Windows are mostly of 1908-09, with moulded arches and nook shafts witfi scalloped capitals. Chancel has single east and north windows. South-east window has part of a C14 opening to the right. C14 straight-headed south-west window of 2 ogee lights. Nave has 2- windows to north and south. South-west window is inserted into a blocked C12 Romanesque doorway, which retains part of a roll-moulded arch. West front has slightly projecting C12 portal with pilaster butresses, inner and outer arches, eroded zig-zag arch with nook shafts, and hood mould with remains of nailhead decoration. C19 studded double-leaf doors. Small trefoiled lancets to left and right have cornices, probably C17, above. Gable has moulded window with cusped Y-tracery, Turret has late C20 weatherboarding. Pyramid roof. Interior is plastered. Chancel has hammerbeam roof, and Romanesque style chancel arch with shafts and carbels of 1908-1909. Nave has C17/C18 collar beam roof, possibly partly reconstructed. Fittings: C18 pulpit has fielded panels. Simple roof font of indeterminate date. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire: p398; VCH: Warwickshire: Vol lV, pp213-214
Listing NGR: SK2551005207
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435611
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1947), 213-214
Pevsner, N, Wedgewood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1981)
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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