Church of Saint Matthew is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1986. Church.
Church of Saint Matthew
- WRENN ID
- tall-hall-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Outer MP: Mr Luke Charters (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Saint Matthew, Main Street, Naburn
- OS grid reference
- SE 598 453
- Coordinates
- 53.90099, -1.08993
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Saint Matthew is a Grade II listed building, constructed in 1854 by G T Andrews. It is built from sandstone ashlar and features a Welsh slate roof and a limestone spire, showcasing an early 14th century Gothic Revival style. The church includes a north-west tower, a four-bay nave with a south porch and a north aisle, as well as a two-bay chancel with a vestry to the north.
The three-stage tower is supported by buttresses with offsets and has an angle stair turret at the second stage. Each stage features trefoil-headed lancets and slits in the stair turret. The tower has twin-light bell-openings with quatrefoils above them, all set under hoodmoulds, and is topped with a broach spire. The nave and recessed chancel also have buttresses with offsets.
The south porch contains a pointed plank doorway framed by slender columns on the jambs, along with a hoodmould that has face stops. The church features two-light windows with trefoils and quatrefoils above, and a continuous moulded sill band. There is a pointed priest's entrance to the chancel with a plank door and hoodmould, as well as a three-light west window and a three-light east window, both under hoods with face stops and quatrefoils in the gables.
Inside, the church has a three-bay arcade to the north supported by double-chamfered cylindrical piers and a double-chamfered chancel arch. The interior also features mainly 19th-century stained glass.
Local climate
Church of Saint Matthew sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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