Church of Saint Matthew and Boundary Wall

Details

KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA02NE ANLABY ROAD 680-1/8/32 (South side) Church of St Matthew and boundary wall

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Church and adjoining boundary wall. 1870. By Adams & Kelly. Yellow brick, with red brick and ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Early English style. Plinth, cogged eaves, buttresses, coped gables. Windows are lancets with plate tracery, set in pointed-arched recesses. Chancel with apse, north-east tower with spire, south-east vestry, nave with clerestorey and aisles, north-west porch. Apse has 3 triple lancets and chancel has a single lancet on each side, to east. Tower, 3 stages, has plinth, string courses and corbel table. Lower stage has a single lancet to north and a door to east, each with 2 small lancets above it. To west, above the aisle roof, 2 similar small lancets. Second stage has on each side 2 pairs of very tall, narrow lancets. Bell stage has on each side, 2 pairs of louvred double lancet bell openings. Octagonal broach spire has a single tier of gabled lucarnes and above, a tier of small double lancets with oval windows above them. South-eastern vestry has to east a triple lancet and a corner stack. To west, a shouldered doorway with lamp bracket above. Nave clerestorey has on each side 6 groups of 3 small lancets. West end has a tall recess with a traceried circular window and below it, 2 double lancets. Below, a double rebated doorway. North aisle has 4 triple lancets to east of the porch and another triple lancet to west. West end has a double lancet. South aisle has 6 triple lancets and a double lancet at the west end. Gabled north-west porch has a chamfered and rebated doorway with wrought-iron gate, and a single unglazed lancet in each side. INTERIOR, mainly rendered, has rebated roll moulded brick chancel arch with keystone and hoodmould and slender piers. Chancel has waggon roof with arch braces and wooden wall shafts on angel corbels. Wooden ribs to apse. String course and sill band, traceried wood panelling to east end. East end has 3 triple lancets with stained glass, 1900. To north and south, a moulded arch with hoodmould, the north one with organ, the south one with panelled screen and overlight, with 2 round windows above. East of the arches, a single lancet on each side. Nave has scissor braced roof with collars. 6-bay arcades with roll moulded brick arches with hoodmoulds and angel stops, with round stone columns, square foliate capitals and octagonal bases. Plain clerestorey windows on sill band. 2 north-west bays are enclosed by a glazed wooden screen, with traceried panelled internal porch with crest. 2 south-west bays blocked late C20 to form a side room. West end has a stained-glass memorial window c1918, on a sill band, and below, a central doorway. Aisles have lean-to roofs and eastern arches with hoodmoulds, the north one with organ pipes and below them, a traceried door. South-east round arch has traceried screen and overlight. North aisle is mainly occupied by a wooden enclosure forming a Sunday school, 1987. East window has stained-glass dated 1906. South aisle has 2 eastern windows with stained glass, c1906. Fittings include panelled octagonal font with stepped wooden cover with flying buttresses and cross, traceried octagonal wooden pulpit, traceried stalls and desks with poppyheads, benches with shaped ends and cast and wrought-iron altar rail, all C19. Brass eagle lectern dated 1896. Memorials include tablets and brasses, late C19 and early C20. Outside, to north, low brick boundary wall with stone coping and concave curve to north-west porch. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: York and The East Riding: Harmondsworth: 1972-: 287).

Listing NGR: TA0781128666

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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 287

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