Church Of St Matthew

DEWSBURY CB HUDDERSFIELD ROAD SE 22 SW (Dewsbury)

2/55 Church of St. Martthew

II

Gothic Revival church in Decorated style. 1848 by Bonomi and Cory. Hammer dressed stone. Stone slate roof. Squat square, unbuttressed west tower with stair turret. Low, 4-bay nave with lean-to north and south aisles and south porch. 3-bay chancel with 2-bay chapel to south and vestry to north. 2-light bell chamber openings with square head and Tudor-arched lights. 3-light window, on west side. Crenellated parapet. 2-light, square headed clerestory windows with tracery. 3-light aisle and chapel windows. 6-light transomed window to chancel, south side. Large 14-light transomed east window. All with Decorated tracery. The lean-to vestry on north side has 3 diagonally set ashlar stacks with crenellated caps.

Interior: 4-bay arcade to north and south on octagonal piers. 2-bay arcaded chancel with side chapel to right and organ to left. Choir stalls in chancel. Carved and traceried chancel screen with texts at base. Straight-backed pews with straight sides. Scissor braced nave roof with pierced side panels. Heavy hammer beam chancel roof with pierced spandrels and pendant bosses.

N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, 1967.

Listing NGR: SE2371621222