Church of St Matthew is a Grade II listed building in the Trafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1963. Church.
Church of St Matthew
- WRENN ID
- open-oriel-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Trafford
- Constituency
- Stretford and Urmston MP: Andrew Western (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1963
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Matthew, Chester Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 794 941
- Coordinates
- 53.44396, -2.31037
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Matthew is a church built in 1842, with later enlargements in 1869, 1906, and 1922. Designed by W. Hayley for the Church Commissioners, it is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The church has a three-sided gallery plan, a later chancel, and a west tower, all in the Gothic Revival style. The nave consists of seven bays, with a plinth, weathered and gableted buttresses, lancet windows, and a door located in the westernmost bay. The gables are coped with kneelers. There are vestries on either side of the chancel, which includes a three-light east window. The tower is four stages high, featuring angled buttresses, a west door, three stepped lancets, a clock face below the gablet, two lancet belfry openings, and a castellated parapet with corner pinnacles.
Inside, the galleries are supported by cast-iron quatrefoil columns. The church contains carved timber fittings, including pews, stalls, a pulpit, an organ, and a reredos. The ceiling is supported by shallow arched Gothic braces. Other notable features include an alabaster font, Minton floor tiles, and stained glass windows.
Local climate
Church of St Matthew 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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