Church of St Matthew
CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, STRETTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329772
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Matthew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, STRETTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329772
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Matthew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, STRETTON ROAD
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:
- CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, STRETTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Warrington (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stretton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 62028 82765
Details
SJ 68 SW STRETTON C.P. STRETTON ROAD (North side) 6/40 Church of St.Matthew 8.1.70 II Church 1870 by George Gilbert Scott, replacing a Commissioners' Church of 1826-7 by Philip Hardwick. The chancel probably stands on Hardwick's foundations. Red sandstone with graded Westmorland slate roofs. 3 stage West tower has angle buttresses, octagonal north-east turret, shaped oak door in cusped archway, single and paired lancets, paired bell-openings and corbelled plain parapet. The 5 bay aisled nave has geometrical tracery to aisle windows and paired lancets to clerestorey. North vestry has simple paired lancets in gable and square-headed windows in sides. The 2 bay chancel (different in character) has plate tracery and nook-shafts in corners of buttresses which carry a corbel-table. The chancel may predate Scott's work, say circa 1860.
Interior: Arch-braced trusses (with windbraces) spring from corbelled stone shafts; cradle roof to chancel; organ between chancel and vestry; late C19 stained glass. Round and octagonal columns alternate in the arcades.
Listing NGR: SJ6202882765
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 58979
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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