Description

SD 90 SW CHADDERTON CHADDERTON HALL ROAD
(north side)
4/3 Church of
30/5/63 St. Matthew
- II
Church. 1848-57. By E. H. Shellard. Hammer-dressed stone
with slate roof. Nave and chancel with south-west tower
(added c.1878) and flat-roofed C20 additions to west and
north. 4-bay nave with projecting plinth and gableted
buttresses. Each bay has a 2-light window with reticulated
tracery. 2-bay chancel with cusped lancet windows. Coped
gables with finials. 3-stage tower with clasping buttresses
has arched door, small lancet openings and a squat spire
which sits behind corner pinnacles and accommodates the
belfry with gabled 2-light openings. Interior: west gallery
with blind arcaded parapet on cast-iron columns. Arch-braced
collar-tie roof trusses on carved corbtes. Wagon roof to
chancel. Timber fittings and stone font. Stained glass,
some by Kempe and Tower, other by F. Comere and Capronnier.

Listing NGR: SD9005506691

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St. Matthew's Church, Chadderton at Wikipedia
• St. Matthew's Church, Chadderton official website
• Wikidata Q7590588

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)