Church Of St Matthew

The Church of St Matthew, built between 1875 and 1876 by G. Vialls, is designed in a simple and dignified early English style, featuring a three-sided apsidal chancel. The exterior is constructed from Luton grey bricks, topped with tiled roofs, crested ridge tiles, and stone finials. The layout includes an aisled nave with north and south porches, a chancel with a vestry to the north, and an organ with a chapel to the south.

The chancel is adorned with a deep moulded brick frieze at the eaves and has three triple lancet windows with plate tracery, slightly pointed arches, and a continuous moulded brick drip mould. The nave consists of four bays, with both the nave and aisles featuring a moulded brick dentil frieze at the eaves. Each bay of the nave has two clerestory lancet windows with brick drip moulds, while the aisles contain smaller lancets set in stone surrounds, separated by buttresses.

The gables of the south and north porches are divided into squares by moulded brick bands, and the doorways are very plain with recessed double doors, a stone trumeau, and quatrefoil decoration in the tympana. The west end showcases five lancet windows with a quatrefoil in the gable. A small brick belfry houses two bells and is topped with a stone cross.

Inside, the walls are made of light red brick. The nave arcades rest on stone pillars with foliated capitals, and the clerestory windows are framed by a dentil frieze above and a basketwork frieze below. The roof trusses spring from foliated corbels, and the aisles feature arch-braced roofs. The chancel displays a banded pattern of red and grey brick.