Description

SJ 68 SW STRETTON C.P. STRETTON ROAD (North side) 6/40 Church of St.Matthew 8.1.70 II Church 1870 by George Gilbert Scott, replacing a Commissioners' Church of 1826-7 by Philip Hardwick. The chancel probably stands on Hardwick's foundations. Red sandstone with graded Westmorland slate roofs. 3 stage West tower has angle buttresses, octagonal north-east turret, shaped oak door in cusped archway, single and paired lancets, paired bell-openings and corbelled plain parapet. The 5 bay aisled nave has geometrical tracery to aisle windows and paired lancets to clerestorey. North vestry has simple paired lancets in gable and square-headed windows in sides. The 2 bay chancel (different in character) has plate tracery and nook-shafts in corners of buttresses which carry a corbel-table. The chancel may predate Scott's work, say circa 1860.

Interior: Arch-braced trusses (with windbraces) spring from corbelled stone shafts; cradle roof to chancel; organ between chancel and vestry; late C19 stained glass. Round and octagonal columns alternate in the arcades.

Listing NGR: SJ6202882765

External Links

• St Matthew's Church, Stretton at Wikipedia
• St Matthew's Church, Stretton official website
• Wikidata Q7594704

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