Church of St Matthew

The Church of St Matthew is a church located on St Mary's Road in Willesden, designed by W.D. Caröe in 1898 and built between 1900 and 1906. It is constructed of red brick with some stone dressings and features a tiled, pitched roof. The church is designed in a Free Perpendicular style, influenced by Art Nouveau and the Arts and Crafts movement.

The building has a four-bay aisled nave with a clerestory, a narthex, and small transepts. The south aisle includes a Lady Chapel, while the north aisle contains vestries. The chancel consists of three bays, and there is a northeastern bellcote. The west facade features projecting two-storey outer bays with entrances and deeply recessed first-floor two-light windows, which have cambered arch heads, splayed reveals, and battered brick aprons. The facade is topped with stone coped parapets and gables that include shingled spirelets. The central bay is single-storey with a penthouse roof and entrances flanking a three-light window. The eastern window is a large five-light window set within a shallow, slightly pointed recess with three brick mullions. The clerestory windows are large five-light windows set in similar arches, which fade into the sides of flanking buttresses that extend to tiled gabled parapets over the penthouse aisle roofs and into blind gables on the nave roof. The eastern window has seven lights set in a slightly pointed arched recess with two brick mullions.

Inside, the church features contrasting render and exposed brick, with a polished red tile floor and a slightly pointed waggon roof. There is a western gallery, and the nave has arcading of shallow wide arches supported by oak-panelled pillars, with arches responding on the aisle walls. The narrow passage aisles have transverse arches and small windows filled with richly coloured stained glass.

Many of the fittings and fixtures were designed by Caröe, including a carved stone font from 1901, a carved and lettered stone pulpit from 1906, and carved and polished wood altar fronts in the Lady Chapel and chancel, with the latter painted at a later date. The chancel gates are likely a First World War memorial. The organ was designed by Noel Bonavia-Hunt, who served as assistant priest from 1905 to 1912. There are also two stained glass memorial windows at the west end, dated 1920.