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Listed building outline: Parish Church Of St Matthew 390793

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Parish Church Of St Matthew 390793

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.506217 50.467760,-3.506268 50.467739,-3.506290...
• entry-date: 1975-01-10
• listed-building: 1206840
• name: Parish Church Of St Matthew
• notes: Parish church. 1858 to the designs of A Salvin; south aisle and south transept added 1865; chancel lengthened and other alterations 1882-1885 by JL Pearson; west bay and porch 1894 by Pearson. Local grey limestone rubble; Bathstone dressings; slate roofs. PLAN: Chancel; nave with 3-bay north and south aisles; north and south transepts, the north with a bellcote; north west porch; open northex at west end. EXTERIOR: Chancel lower than nave. Fine west end ensemble with triple 2-light Geometric Decorated west end windows, divided by buttresses above a 3-bay open arcaded narthex with moulded arches on cylindrical columns, the side walls rising as massive buttresses with set-offs. 4-light Decorated traceried windows with king mullions to west ends of aisles. Narthex with stone vaulted roof. North side (show front) with buttressed aisle, aisle roof concealed behind parapet; 3 one-light traceried clerestory windows; two 2-light traceried aisle windows. Western bay of aisle has gabled porch with angle buttresses with gabled finials; moulded doorway with bellflowers on octagonal shafts; gable with 3 nodding ogee statue niches with carved figures. North transept has 3-light window with intersecting tracery. Bell tower attached to west transept has a chamfered corner and octagonal base to belfry which has louvred trefoil-headed windows and a stone spire with lucarnes. Lean-to vestry to north side of chancel which has 4-light Decorated traceried east window with a moulded string stepping up below the sill. C20 church room attached to south-west side. INTERIOR: Moulded chancel arch on engaged columns with naturalistic foliage carving. 3-bay aisles with double hollow-chamfered arches on alternate cylindrical and octagonal columns with moulded capitals. Chancel roof a boarded, keeled wagon with moulded ribs and blind traceried wall panels; ceilure over sanctuary; keeled boarded wagon roof to nave with tie beam trusses on detached shafts. Chancel arch clad with timber tracery. Lean-to aisle roofs with traceried braces. Low arches into transepts. Good set of High Victorian fittings to the chancel. Marble and tile floor; 1882 alabaster reredos with statues by Hems of Exeter; chancel walls clad with moasics with alabaster frames, probably by Powe. Trefoil-headed sedilia and piscina. Wrought-iron sanctuary rail. Set of sturdy choir stalls with traceried panels; alabaster and wrought-iron chancel rail. Brass eagle lectern. Elaborate 1894 alabaster and local marble pulpit with figures of the evangelists; west end screen with glazed traceried panels. Fine set of C19 windows includes Clayton & Bell in the chancel, Drake in the aisle, west window probably to the designs of Morris Drake. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: P.851). Listing NGR: SX9319164173
• reference: 390793
• start-date: 1975-01-10