CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS

CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, NORTH HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386290
Date first listed:: 01-May-1975
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, NORTH HILL

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Date:: 2006-03-16
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386290
Date first listed:: 01-May-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, NORTH HILL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, NORTH HILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SX 48300 55302

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 04/08/2016

SX4855 740-1/43/381

PLYMOUTH NORTH HILL (East side) Church of St Matthias and attached forecourt walls (Formerly Listed as: TAVISTOCK ROAD, Plymouth, Church of St Matthias)

01/05/75

GV II Anglican church. 1887 by Hine and Odgers, paid for by Mrs Watts in memory of her husband, Matthias Watts. Roughly coursed dressed Plymouth limestone and Portland stone dressings; dry slate roof over nave and chancel; low-pitched roofs behind embattled parapets to aisles. STYLE: Perpendicular Gothic. PLAN: nave with clerestory, chancel, N and S aisles, S porch,S transept, NW vestry and W tower. EXTERIOR: traceried windows with hoodmoulds: 7-light chancel E window; 4-light E window to vestry and 4-light S window to porch, otherwise mostly 3-light traceried windows with hoodmoulds. Embattled 2-stage tower, with strings dividing stages, has corner buttresses surmounted by panelled, embattled and crocketed pinnacles; tall bell stage with slender shafts between tall 2-light transomed louvred and traceried windows. Lower stage has 4-light traceried window over moulded pointed-arched doorway of 2 orders under blind traceried panelling. S porch has moulded 4-centred arched doorway with flanking crocketed pinnacles. INTERIOR: walls of yellow Bath and red Mansfield stone. Fittings: pulpit and font of Devon marble by Hems; reredos by Fellowes Prynne, 891. Stained glass by Fouracre & Watson, the earliest E window 1890. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: dressed Plymouth limestone brought-to course forecourt walls with chamfered copings and projecting square-on-plan gate-piers with tapered caps. The tower is a prominent feature of the Plymouth skyline. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989: 644).

Listing NGR: SX4830055302

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Legacy System number:: 473675
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 644

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.