Church Of Saint Matthew And Boundary Wall

Church of Saint Matthew and Boundary Wall

A church and adjoining boundary wall built in 1870, designed by architects Adams & Kelly, located on Anlaby Road in Kingston upon Hull. The building is constructed of yellow brick with red brick and ashlar dressings, and is roofed in slate. It displays the Early English architectural style.

The exterior features a plinth, cogged eaves, buttresses, and coped gables. Windows throughout are lancets with plate tracery, set in pointed-arched recesses. The building comprises a chancel with an apse, a north-east tower with spire, a south-east vestry, a nave with clerestorey and aisles, and a north-west porch.

The apse contains three triple lancets, while the chancel has a single lancet on each side to the east. The north-east tower rises in three stages with a plinth, string courses, and corbel table. The lower stage features a single lancet to the north and a door to the east, each with two small lancets above. To the west, above the aisle roof, are two similar small lancets. The second stage displays on each side two pairs of very tall, narrow lancets. The bell stage has on each side two pairs of louvred double lancet bell openings. The octagonal broach spire features a single tier of gabled lucarnes and above it a tier of small double lancets with oval windows above them.

The south-east vestry has to its east a triple lancet and a corner stack. To the west is a shouldered doorway with a lamp bracket above. The nave clerestorey has on each side six groups of three small lancets. The west end displays a tall recess containing a traceried circular window with two double lancets below, and beneath these a double rebated doorway. The north aisle has four triple lancets to the east of the porch and another triple lancet to the west, with a double lancet at the west end. The south aisle has six triple lancets and a double lancet at the west end. The gabled north-west porch has a chamfered and rebated doorway with wrought-iron gate, and a single unglazed lancet in each side.

The interior is mainly rendered. The chancel arch is of rebated roll-moulded brick with keystone and hoodmould, flanked by slender piers. The chancel has a waggon roof with arch braces and wooden wall shafts on angel corbels, with wooden ribs to the apse. A string course and sill band are present, and the east end features traceried wood panelling. The east end has three triple lancets with stained glass dating to 1900. To the north and south are moulded arches with hoodmoulds; the north one accommodates an organ and the south one features a panelled screen and overlight with two round windows above. East of these arches is a single lancet on each side.

The nave has a scissor-braced roof with collars and six-bay arcades with roll-moulded brick arches with hoodmoulds and angel stops. The arcades feature round stone columns with square foliate capitals and octagonal bases. Plain clerestorey windows sit on a sill band. The north-west two bays are enclosed by a glazed wooden screen with a traceried panelled internal porch with crest. The south-west two bays were blocked in the late 20th century to form a side room. The west end contains a stained-glass memorial window dating to around 1918 on a sill band, with a central doorway below.

The aisles have lean-to roofs and eastern arches with hoodmoulds. The north one accommodates organ pipes with a traceried door below them. The south-east round arch has a traceried screen and overlight. The north aisle is largely occupied by a wooden enclosure forming a Sunday school, added in 1987. The east window contains stained glass dated 1906. The south aisle has two eastern windows with stained glass dating to around 1906.

Fittings include a panelled octagonal font with stepped wooden cover featuring flying buttresses and a cross, a traceried octagonal wooden pulpit, traceried stalls and desks with poppyheads, benches with shaped ends, and a cast and wrought-iron altar rail, all dating to the 19th century. A brass eagle lectern is dated 1896. Memorials comprise tablets and brasses from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The boundary wall outside, to the north, is a low brick wall with stone coping and a concave curve towards the north-west porch.