Parish Church of St Matthew
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1326143
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Matthew
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1326143
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Matthew
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW
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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Butterleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 97475 08148
Details
BUTTERLEIGH BUTTERLEIGH SS 90 NE 4/52 Parish Church of St Matthew - - II * Parish Church. Medieval tower (possibly 1319 when Bishop Stapledon dedicated a rebuilt church here); C14 south doorway; north wall and chancel, and probably much of the remainder rebuilt 1861, architect not known. The arcade looks early-C19. Coursed rubble; slate roof. West tower, nave, north aisle, south porch, chancel. Tower of 2 stages with battlemented parapet, rectangular stair turret to south with lean-to concreted roof; big breschia block quoins; square-headed 2-light belfry openings with chamfered mullions and jambs; trefoil-headed lancet, east, just above nave roof ridge; 3-light Perpendicular west window; a variant of wavy moulding to west doorway. North aisle west wall flush with west face of tower. North aisle east and west, and chancel east window, all of 3 lights with hood moulds and terminals; three 2-light windows to north aisle, north wall, one to north and south of chancel, and another to nave south wall, all flush; trefoils or simple roundels in top lights, C19 throughout. Heavy gable coping and crosses; one diagonal buttress to angle between nave and chancel to south. Interior: medieval tower arch of 2 orders, C13 trefoil-headed piscina in sanctuary south wall; C19 3-bay arcade with slender piers of square profile, chamfered, with moulded capitals and segmentally-headed arches with single moulding and flat soffit. Chancel arch, C19, of 2 orders with large heads for corbels. Ceiled, panelled roofs. Font: C12 or early C13, plain circular bowl, chamfered rim, a circular stem with moulded base. C17 pillar alms box, painted. Glass: North aisle Noon memorial window, 1926, Morris & Co. References: Pevsner, S.D., p.73; B.Cresswell, Deanery of Cullompton (1920 : West Country Studies Library typescript), p.75; Devon C19 Churches Project.
Listing NGR: SS9747508148
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95244
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cresswell, B F, Notes on Devon Churches in the Deanery of Cullompton, (1920), 75
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Devon, (1952), 73
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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