Church Of St Matthew

SANDWELL MB DUDLEY ROAD SO 99 SW Tipton 3/76 Church of St Matthew

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Church. 1876 by J H Gibbons. Brick in English bond with tile roof. Comprises a nave with clerestory, lower two-storey west porch, lower chancel with five- sided apse, very narrow aisles, north vestry, and south-east tower. West wall has triple stepped lancets below gable, and single lancets to each side below parapets. The central doorway has a pointed arch and a stone tympanum carved with a figure of St Matthew. Nave of six bays, with paired lancets to the aisles and triple lancets to the clerestory. The tower has angle buttresses, a south doorway, two lancet bell openings on each side, and a pierced parapet with corner pinnacles and gargoyles. Interior: west gallery within pointed arch- way. Six-bay arcades of pointed brick arches springing from round piers with foliated capitals. Open timber roof with arched principals carried on corbels, with vertical iron rods and iron tie rods. Pointed brick chancel arch has engaged corbelled shafts as responds, with foliated capitals. Apse roof has timber ribs springing from corbels between windows. Organ on south side set within brick archway. East windows contain early C20 glass depicting Christ and the four evangelists.

Listing NGR: SO9494392218