Church of St Matthias and Attached Forecourt Walls
CHURCH OF ST MATTHIAS AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, NORTH HILL
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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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 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473675
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 644
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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