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Parish Church of St Matthew

A Grade II Listed Building in Ashford East, Surrey

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4324 / 51°25'56"N

Longitude: -0.459 / 0°27'32"W

OS Eastings: 507216

OS Northings: 171508

OS Grid: TQ072715

Mapcode National: GBR 26.GY4

Mapcode Global: VHFTR.0857

Plus Code: 9C3XCGJR+X9

Entry Name: Parish Church of St Matthew

Listing Date: 10 April 1974

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1187026

English Heritage Legacy ID: 363225

Also known as: St Matthew's, Ashford

ID on this website: 101187026

Location: St Matthew's Church, Ashford, Spelthorne, Surrey, TW15

County: Surrey

District: Spelthorne

Electoral Ward/Division: Ashford East

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Ashford (Spelthorne)

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Surrey

Church of England Parish: St Matthew Ashford

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description


CHURCH ROAD
1.
5290
Ashford
Parish Church of
St Matthew
TQ 07 SE 4/39 10.4.74
II

2.
1856-8. Tower 1865. Architect William Butterfield. Decorated Gothic style.
Built of ragstone with Bath stone dressings and bands. Tiled roofs. Aisled nave,
chancel and south chapel, south-west tower and porch with pyramidal roof. Tower
has clasping buttresses, lancet bell openings and pyramidal roof. Cusped lancets
to aisles. Two light decorated clerestory windows. Three-light east window.
Fanlight east window. Porch has depressed segmental head below a tympanum with
pointed head. Interior: 5 bay arcade on octagonal piers. Chancel arch on octagonal
responds. Plain chamfered treatment. Rood screen. Brass to Edward Wooden and
wife (1525). Coffin plate to Earl of Kinnoul (d.1758). C20 5 bay vestry to north-east
at right angles in similar style. (See VCR Vol II p 308, Middlesex).


Listing NGR: TQ0721671508

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