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© Mr Barrie S. Dixon
IoE Number:
212968
Location:
CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, CHESTER ROAD (north side)
STRETFORD, TRAFFORD, GREATER MANCHESTER
Photographer:
Mr Barrie S. Dixon
Date Photographed:
04 March 2001
Date listed:
20 June 1963
Date of last amendment:
20 June 1963
Grade
II
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STRETFORD CHESTER ROAD
SJ 79 SE
(north-west side)
(SJ 7994 SW)
5/10 Church of
20/6/63 St. Matthew
G.V. II
Church. 1842 but enlarged in 1869, 1906 and 1922. W. Hayley
for the Church Commissioners, Brick with ashlar dressings
and slate roof. 3-sided gallery plan with later chancel and
a west tower. Gothic Revival. 7-bay nave with plinth,
weathered and gableted buttresses, lancet windows and a door
in the western-most bay. Coped gables with kneelers. Vesties
to either side of chancel which has a 3-light east window.
4-stage tower with angled buttresses, west door, 3 stepped
lancets, clock face below gablet, 2 lancet belfry openings
and castellated parapet with corner pinnacles. Interior: the
galleries are supported on cast-iron quatrefoil columns.
Carved timber fittings include pews, stalls, pulpit, organ
and reredos. Ceiling supported on shallow arched Gothic
braces. Alabaster font. Minton floor tiles. Stained glass.