CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW

CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1295105
Date first listed:: 22-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1295105
Date first listed:: 22-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, HIGH STREET

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 MATTHEW, HIGH STREET

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wookey
National Grid Reference:: ST 51851 45791

Details

ST54NW WOOKEY CP HIGH STREET (South side)

21/163 Church of St Matthew 22.11.66

GV I

Anglican Parish Church. C12 establishment, late C13 chancel, remainder C14-early C15, except C16 chapel; restored 1872 by Giles and Gane, C20 vestry. Coursed and squared rubble, freestone dressings, coped verges, cruciform finials, slate and lead-sheeting roofs, ashlar stack. Nave, chancel, north and south aisles, south chapel, south porch, north vestry, west tower. Perpendicular. Three-stage tower, diagonal buttresses, pinnacles, embattled parapet, polygonal stair-turret with a stone spirelet; 2-light bell-chamber windows with a quatrefoil interlace, clock; 4-light west window, west door. Three bay nave cum aisles, 2-light windows, buttresses; lofty porch, moulded inner and outer door openings, benched interior on flagstone floor, wooden dog gates, C15 roof. Three bay chapel with large 4-light square-headed window of 1423 and 2 pointed head windows, 3-light west window. Two bay chancel, 3-light east window, stepped cusped lancet lights. Simple vestry in neo-Perpendicular style. Plastered interior on flagstone and encaustic tile floors. Nave with cusped kingpost roof, restored C19 though some earlier work remains, corbels; aisles with restored lean-to roofs, though again earlier work may remain; nave and chapel with C19 wagon roofs. Tower arch and chancel arch have the same double-quadrant moulding; the same moulding also in the 3 bay north arcade; 3-bay south arcade C15; C16 arches to south chapel. Restored C13 font; 2 hagioscopes; rood stair; 3 piscinae. Two C17 chests; table incorporating remains of C17 altar rail; altar rail of 1635; altar table of c1635; C19 pulpit incorporating Jacobean remains. C18 chest and coffin stools. C19 pews, tester, choir stalls, altar rails and reredos. Principal monument a Perpendicular chest to Thomas Clarke, obit 1555, for whom the south chapel may have been built; many good C17/C18 monuments. C19 charity plaque. Much late C19 stained glass and some good C20 work; north chancel window with fragmentary medieval work. Early bells. C17 bible in glazed case. Organ loft under tower with Art Nouveau gesso plaque. Royal Arms dated 1837. (Pevsner, Buildings of England, North Somerset and Bristol, 1958; The Architect, April 27, 1872).

Listing NGR: ST5185245792

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Legacy System number:: 268176
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958)
'The Architect' in 27 April, (1872)

Legal

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