Church of St Matthew is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1996. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Matthew
- WRENN ID
- noble-wicket-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1996
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Matthew, St Matthews Street
- OS grid reference
- TL 461 585
- Coordinates
- 52.20565, 0.13798
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Matthew is a church built in 1866 by R.R. Rowe. It is constructed from gault brick with red brick dressings and has slate roofs. The church features a Greek cross plan, consisting of an octagonal central core with four radiating arms. Each exposed side of the central core is illuminated by two paired lancet windows with a central oculus. The roof is pyramidal, leading to a glazed octagonal lantern, which is topped with a pyramid roof and four gablets. The radiating arms are pierced by two twin lancets with oculi at the gable ends, and smaller, similar paired lancets on the flanks. There is a bell-cote on the west arm, which has clock faces below. The interior is designed as a preaching house in response to the Oxford Movement, featuring a wide central space with a pine-clad roof and lantern.
Local climate
Church of St Matthew sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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