Former St Matthews Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. Church, Sunday School, office. 1 related planning application.
Former St Matthews Sunday School
- WRENN ID
- worn-pilaster-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1974
- Type
- Church, Sunday School, office
- Address
- Former St Matthews Sunday School, Liverpool Road, M3 4NQ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 832 977
- Coordinates
- 53.4763, -2.25444
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former St Matthews Sunday School, now an office, is a mission church and Sunday school built in 1827, as indicated by the date over the door. It features red brick in Flemish bond with some sandstone dressings and has a rectangular plan with an apsidal south end, situated on an island site. The building is designed in a simple Gothic style and has a gable facing the street. It is two storeys high with a cellar and comprises three symmetrical bays, with pilastered corners and a first-floor sill band. The slightly raised centre has two semicircular steps leading up to a two-centred arched doorway, which includes a fanlight with intersecting glazing bars. Above the door is a large stone plaque inscribed "SUNDAY SCHOOL / MDCCCXXVII". The first floor features a large two-centred arched three-light window with intersecting glazing bars, along with another worn stone plaque above it. Smaller two-centred arched windows with Y-tacery are present in both floors of the outer bays. The gable has a parapet with an oculus, which is now open due to a lowered roof. The sides of the building have five windows, designed in a similar style.
Local climate
Former St Matthews Sunday School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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