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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1983
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ 19 NW 4/29 5259
EASTBURY ROAD, North Oxhey Church of St Matthew
II
1880 by W H Syme of Watford. Red brick Gothic church with north-west tower and spire. Nave and aisles, chancel with 5 sided apse, small north and south transepts. Plain tile roofs. Lancet windows, single in aisles, double in clerestory and triple in transepts. Long single lights to apse. Moulded brick hood-moulds and strings. Some pressed brick ornament. Tower with 2 light bell-openings and broach spire above, brick with 3 stone bands. Open timber roofs, principal arch braces carried on wall-shafts in nave, similar shafts to brick chancel arch. Boarded chancel roof. Pressed brick frieze below clerestory. Early C20 carved oak pulpit lectern, screen (now at west end) and altar rails. In north aisle is original elaborate painted wood reredos circa 1880-90 by J E K Cutts, moved from chancel. In south transept luminous stained glass circa 1916 by Carl Parsons. Builder 29.5.1880.
Listing NGR: TQ1175595311
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