Church of St Matthew is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1955. Church.
Church of St Matthew
- WRENN ID
- other-marble-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- Peterborough MP: Andrew Pakes (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1955
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Matthew, High Street, Eye, City of Peterborough
- OS grid reference
- TF 228 028
- Coordinates
- 52.60952, -0.18656
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Matthew, built in 1846 by George Basevi with the steeple added a little later by F T Dollman, is located on the south side of High Street in Eye. It was constructed on the site of an ancient church that was demolished. The building is made of ashlar stone and features Collyweston stone roofs, designed in the Early English style with a cruciform plan. The nave includes lancet windows with cusped heads, and there are north and south transepts. The short chancel has triple lancet windows on the east side. The west tower is characterized by set back buttresses and a broach spire with lucarnes. Although the interior is of no particular interest, it houses a 14th-century octagonal font with traceried panels on a 19th-century base, as well as a stained glass east window created in 1863 by Gibbs.
Local climate
Church of St Matthew sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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