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

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

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)