CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS

CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS, WORDSWORTH ROAD N16

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1265031
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1953
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS, WORDSWORTH ROAD N16

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1265031
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1953
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS, WORDSWORTH ROAD N16

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS, WORDSWORTH ROAD N16

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Hackney (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 33252 85488

Details

735/18/683 WORDSWORTH ROAD N16 01-SEP-53 CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS

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Revision Number: 2

WORDSWORTH ROAD N16 1. 5013 Church of St Matthias TQ 3385 18/683 1.9.53. A 2. 1851 by William Butterfield. Tall nave with low, pent aisles. Saddleback crossing tower. Short lower chancel with aisles steeply gabled at right angles. Stock brick with stone dressings including corbel table at eaves and below parapet of tower. High pitched slated roof. Strongly individual, although built at low cost, and with thoughtful details. Tower, with very long bell openings, the most striking feature. Freely-adapted late Decorated type window tracery. Inside nave of 5 bays with alternate octagonal and compound piers. Tall chancel arch: and half-arches at east of aisles. Cusped timber roof to north-west porch.

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Listing NGR: TQ3325285488

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Legacy System number:: 426310
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.