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Latitude: 53.3404 / 53°20'25"N
Longitude: -2.5717 / 2°34'18"W
OS Eastings: 362028
OS Northings: 382765
OS Grid: SJ620827
Mapcode National: GBR BYHT.08
Mapcode Global: WH98Y.G9LH
Plus Code: 9C5V8CRH+58
Entry Name: Church of St Matthew
Listing Date: 8 January 1970
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1329772
English Heritage Legacy ID: 58979
ID on this website: 101329772
Location: St Matthew's Church, Stretton, Warrington, Cheshire, WA4
County: Warrington
Civil Parish: Stretton
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Stretton St Matthew
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival
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
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