Description

ST 83 SW MERE SHAFTESBURY ROAD
(east side)

2/75 Church of St Matthew

5.2.81

GV II

Anglican parish church. By C E Ponting, 1882. Rock-faced coursed limestone
with yellow ashlar dressings, plain-tiled roof. Nave, chancel, bell-cote,
north porch, south vestry. Nave south side has four 2-light segmental-headed
flush set chamfer surround windows; vestry with shouldered arch to door; stone
stack with offset and broached to round capping. At junction nave and chancel a
timber-framed bell-cote with gablets to east and west and tile-clad base. Iron
decorative cross to east gable. To chancel 3 flush lancets and paired lancet to
north side; plinth course to apse only. North side of nave as south, but also
timber-framed porch with glazed sides. Single offset buttress left of nave.
Original iron hopper-heads and down pipes. A modest building with tight budget.

Listing NGR: ST8229630748

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26588090

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)