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Latitude: 50.378 / 50°22'40"N
Longitude: -4.1349 / 4°8'5"W
OS Eastings: 248300
OS Northings: 55302
OS Grid: SX483553
Mapcode National: GBR RCK.2N
Mapcode Global: FRA 2871.DY6
Plus Code: 9C2Q9VH8+62
Entry Name: Church of St Matthias and Attached Forecourt Walls
Listing Date: 1 May 1975
Last Amended: 9 November 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1386290
English Heritage Legacy ID: 473675
ID on this website: 101386290
Location: Mutley, Plymouth, Devon, PL4
County: City of Plymouth
Electoral Ward/Division: Drake
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Plymouth
Traditional County: Devon
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon
Tagged with: Church building
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 04/08/2016
SX4855
740-1/43/381
PLYMOUTH
NORTH HILL (East side)
Church of St Matthias and attached forecourt walls
(Formerly Listed as: TAVISTOCK ROAD, Plymouth, Church of St Matthias)
01/05/75
GV
II
Anglican church. 1887 by Hine and Odgers, paid for by Mrs Watts in memory of her husband, Matthias Watts. Roughly coursed dressed Plymouth limestone and Portland stone dressings; dry slate roof over nave and chancel; low-pitched roofs behind embattled parapets to aisles. STYLE: Perpendicular Gothic. PLAN: nave with clerestory, chancel, N and S aisles, S porch,S transept, NW vestry and W tower.
EXTERIOR: traceried windows with hoodmoulds: 7-light chancel E window; 4-light E window to vestry and 4-light S window to porch, otherwise mostly 3-light traceried windows with hoodmoulds. Embattled 2-stage tower, with strings dividing stages, has corner buttresses surmounted by panelled, embattled and crocketed pinnacles; tall bell stage with slender shafts between tall 2-light transomed louvred and traceried windows. Lower stage has 4-light traceried window over moulded pointed-arched doorway of 2 orders under blind traceried panelling. S porch has moulded 4-centred arched doorway with flanking crocketed pinnacles.
INTERIOR: walls of yellow Bath and red Mansfield stone. Fittings: pulpit and font of Devon marble by Hems; reredos by Fellowes Prynne, 891. Stained glass by Fouracre & Watson, the earliest E window 1890.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: dressed Plymouth limestone brought-to course forecourt walls with chamfered copings and projecting square-on-plan gate-piers with tapered caps. The tower is a prominent feature of the Plymouth skyline.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989: 644).
Listing NGR: SX4830055302
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