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

• 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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  For the Record
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)