Church of St Matthew is a Grade II listed building in the Watford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1983. A Victorian Church.
Church of St Matthew
- WRENN ID
- spare-solder-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Watford
- Constituency
- Watford MP: Matt Turmaine (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1983
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Matthew, Eastbury Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 117 953
- Coordinates
- 51.64551, -0.38622
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Matthew, built in 1880 by W H Syme of Watford, is a red brick Gothic church located on Eastbury Road in North Oxhey. It features a north-west tower with a spire, a nave with aisles, and a chancel that has a five-sided apse, along with small north and south transepts. The roofs are covered with plain tiles. The church has lancet windows, with single windows in the aisles, double windows in the clerestory, and triple windows in the transepts. The apse has long single lights, and there are moulded brick hood-moulds and strings, along with some pressed brick ornamentation.
The tower includes two-light bell-openings and a broach spire, constructed from brick with three stone bands. Inside, the church has open timber roofs, with principal arch braces supported by wall-shafts in the nave and similar shafts in the brick chancel arch. The chancel roof is boarded, and there is a pressed brick frieze below the clerestory.
Notable interior features include an early 20th-century carved oak pulpit, lectern, screen (now located at the west end), and altar rails. In the north aisle, there is an original elaborate painted wood reredos from around 1880-90 by J E K Cutts, which has been moved from the chancel. The south transept contains luminous stained glass from around 1916 by Carl Parsons. The church was built by the builder on May 29, 1880.
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 93% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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