Church of St Mathew and St Aidan is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1982. Parish church.
Church of St Mathew and St Aidan
- WRENN ID
- silver-chimney-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1982
- Type
- Parish church
- Address
- Church of St Mathew and St Aidan, Roundthorn Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 942 043
- Coordinates
- 53.53594, -2.08874
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mathew and St Aidan is a parish church built in 1933 by architects Taylor and Young. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings and features a Welsh slate roof, showcasing a severe neo-classical style. The church has a single span design with a west doorway and a pedimented western gable. Above the gable, there is a cupola that houses a bell, supported by Tuscan shafts that carry a lantern roof. The entrance features a rusticated architrave with panelled doors, a fanlight, and an oculus above.
On the north and south sides, there are five round-arched leaded lights with stone keys and brick panelled aprons, along with oculi on the east and west walls and eastern doorways. The chancel and flanking vestries may be slightly later additions, with the chancel having a flat roof and a single round-arched window with a recessed panel above a string course on both the north and south walls. The eastern doorway is set in a projecting pedimented architrave.
Local climate
Church of St Mathew and St Aidan sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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