Church of St Matthew is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. Church.

Church of St Matthew

WRENN ID
seventh-groin-mist
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Ellesmere Port and Bromborough MP: Justin Madders (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1986
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Matthew, York Street
OS grid reference
SJ 349 842
Coordinates
53.35076, -2.97882
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St. Matthew is a church built between 1889 and 1890 by Leach, located on the south side of York Street in Bebington, Bromborough Pool. It is constructed from rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and features a tile roof. The church includes a nave, chancel, north transept, and a turret. The four-bay nave has a sill course and stepped triple lancets situated between weathered buttresses, while the west end displays stepped triple cusped lancets between angle buttresses. The south gabled porch features a pointed entrance. The transept contains stepped triple lancets, and the octagonal turret to the west has a pointed entrance and cusped louvred bell openings, topped with a slate spirelet and an iron cross. The three-bay chancel has pairs of lancets and a triplet on the east side. This church is part of a planned village for Price's Patent Candle Company, representing one of the earliest examples of a model industrial village.

Local climate

Church of St Matthew sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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