Church of St Matthew is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1981. Church.
Church of St Matthew
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-belfry-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1981
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Matthew, Shaftesbury Road, Mere
- OS grid reference
- ST 822 307
- Coordinates
- 51.07577, -2.25408
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Matthew is an Anglican parish church designed by C E Ponting and built in 1882. It is constructed from rock-faced coursed limestone with yellow ashlar dressings and features a plain-tiled roof. The church comprises a nave, chancel, bell-cote, north porch, and south vestry.
On the south side of the nave, there are four 2-light segmental-headed flush set windows with chamfer surrounds. The vestry has a door with a shouldered arch and a stone stack that has an offset and a broached round capping. At the junction of the nave and chancel, there is a timber-framed bell-cote with gablets on the east and west sides and a tile-clad base, topped with an iron decorative cross on the east gable. The chancel features three flush lancets and a paired lancet on the north side, with a plinth course present only on the apse.
The north side of the nave mirrors the south side but also includes a timber-framed porch with glazed sides. There is a single offset buttress to the left of the nave. The church retains its original iron hopper-heads and downpipes. Overall, it is a modest building constructed with a tight budget.
Local climate
Church of St Matthew receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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