Church of St Matthew
CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, DUDLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342643
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Matthew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, DUDLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342643
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Matthew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, DUDLEY 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, DUDLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sandwell (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 94943 92218
Details
SANDWELL MB DUDLEY ROAD SO 99 SW Tipton 3/76 Church of St Matthew
II
Church. 1876 by J H Gibbons. Brick in English bond with tile roof. Comprises a nave with clerestory, lower two-storey west porch, lower chancel with five- sided apse, very narrow aisles, north vestry, and south-east tower. West wall has triple stepped lancets below gable, and single lancets to each side below parapets. The central doorway has a pointed arch and a stone tympanum carved with a figure of St Matthew. Nave of six bays, with paired lancets to the aisles and triple lancets to the clerestory. The tower has angle buttresses, a south doorway, two lancet bell openings on each side, and a pierced parapet with corner pinnacles and gargoyles. Interior: west gallery within pointed arch- way. Six-bay arcades of pointed brick arches springing from round piers with foliated capitals. Open timber roof with arched principals carried on corbels, with vertical iron rods and iron tie rods. Pointed brick chancel arch has engaged corbelled shafts as responds, with foliated capitals. Apse roof has timber ribs springing from corbels between windows. Organ on south side set within brick archway. East windows contain early C20 glass depicting Christ and the four evangelists.
Listing NGR: SO9494392218
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 219284
- 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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