Church of St Matthew Stretton, England
Listed Building Data
Church of St Matthew has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1329772
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 8 January 1970
- Name
- CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW
- Location
- CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, STRETTON ROAD
- Parish
- Stretton
- District
- Warrington
- Grid Reference
- SJ 62028 82765
- Easting
- 362028.0000
- Northing
- 382765.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
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
