Church Of St Matthias And Attached Forecourt Walls

The Church of St Matthias, an Anglican church, was built in 1887 by architects Hine and Odgers and funded by Mrs. Watts in memory of her husband, Matthias Watts. It features roughly coursed dressed Plymouth limestone with Portland stone dressings and has a dry slate roof over the nave and chancel, as well as low-pitched roofs behind embattled parapets on the aisles. The architectural style is Perpendicular Gothic. The church's layout includes a nave with a clerestory, a chancel, north and south aisles, a south porch, a south transept, a northwest vestry, and a west tower.

The exterior showcases traceried windows with hoodmoulds, including a seven-light east window in the chancel, a four-light east window in the vestry, and a four-light south window in the porch. Most of the other windows are three-light traceried windows with hoodmoulds. The embattled two-stage tower features strings dividing the stages, corner buttresses topped with panelled, embattled, and crocketed pinnacles, and a tall bell stage with slender shafts between tall two-light transomed louvred and traceried windows. The lower stage has a four-light traceried window above a moulded pointed-arched doorway of two orders, which is set beneath blind traceried panelling. The south porch contains a moulded four-centred arched doorway flanked by crocketed pinnacles.

Inside, the walls are made of yellow Bath stone and red Mansfield stone. Notable fittings include a pulpit and font made of Devon marble by Hems, and a reredos by Fellowes Prynne from 1891. The stained glass, created by Fouracre & Watson, includes the earliest east window from 1890.

The church is accompanied by forecourt walls made of dressed Plymouth limestone with chamfered copings and projecting square-on-plan gate-piers topped with tapered caps. The tower is a significant feature of the Plymouth skyline.