Church of St Matthew
CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1365552
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Matthew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1365552
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Matthew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, CHURCH LANE
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, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rushall
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 12866 55852
Details
RUSHALL CHURCH LANE SU 17 NW (north side) 2/133 Church of St. Matthew 27.5.64 II* Anglican parish church. C14, C16 and 1812. Restored 1905. Limestone ashlar facing clunch, and brick nave and chancel. Copper roof, slate to chancel. Nave with north chapel, west tower, and chancel. Tower is late C15-C16, of 2 stages, wth 2 openings in upper ringing and bell stage. Crenellated parapet and corner pinnacles. 3-light west window. Only the north east corner of the nave and chancel arch survive of the medieval church, but buttresses, keeled below lowest offset establish size. Nave and chancel rebuilt in Flemish brickwork in 1812, with simple 2-light 'Y' tracery windows on south side. Chapel at right angles, 1789, for John Poore, with 2-light north window of bar tracery and colonettes. Chapel and chancel restored 1905 by C.E. Ponting, and lancet to chancel set with tracery. Entrance at west end of nave through shallow porch on south, blocked on north side. Good organ by Hill & Co. Interior: Wide nave with flat ceiling. C14-C15 chancel arch,. socketed for rood beam. Chancel has C19 braced rafter roof. Priest's door on south side embellished 1913. Medieval piscina in north-east corner of nave. Tower arch tall with panelled soffite. Fittings: Font, C12 square with plain arcading, on octagonal base standing on upturned large C12 fluted capital. Pews of C16, panelled with plain tracery carved on bench ends. Creed boards on east wall. Monuments: North Chapel: Large white marble tablet, 1788, panel with patera frieze and lotus cornice, relief over. Arms below to Edward Poore. Nave: By pulpit; wall panel of limestone. C16, two recessed panels with odd shaped shields, one inscribed WP, all within arabesque borders. Also behind pulpit, small inscribed tablet to Roger Pinckney, died 1706. Five wall tablets of white marble on black, on east wall (a) scroll, to JOHN HAYWARD, died 1869. South wall: (b) Drapery inscribed with arms over, by Wiltshire of Swindon, to GEORGE PINCKNEY, died 1883. (c) Great War tablet. North wall: (d) Chaste white tablet to DAVID EDMONDS of St. Mary le Strand, died 1812. (e) Tall tablet, early C19, to RICHARD STRATTON, died 1810, and family. Chancel: Five wall tablets: North: (f) Grey tablet on limestone background to Rev. THOMAS GIFFARD, died 1746. (g) White on grey marble, to FRANCIS GIFFARD of Upavon, died 1802. (h) Tablet by Harrison of Devizes, to curate Rev. KENRICK PECK died 1837, and family. South side: (j) Lozenge, to SARAH PECK, died 1802. (k) Slate tablet to ANN BAXTER, died 1670. Poem. Over south door, Royal Arms, C18. In tower: Hatchment. Glass: In chancel window, C15 panels of Crucifiction and the Madonna. Arms above. North-east nave window has a stained glass window of 1979 by A.E. Buss. (Pevsner: Buildings of England; Wiltshire.)
Listing NGR: SU1286655852
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 311082
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)
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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