Church Of St Matthew is a Grade II* listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1985. A Victorian Church.
Church Of St Matthew
- WRENN ID
- tall-attic-plover
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1985
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SX 76 NE STAVERTON LANDSCOVE
2/102 Church of St Matthew
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- II*
Parish church. 1849-50 by J L Pearson in Decorated style. Stone rubble with free- stone dressings. Welsh slate roofs. Nave, chancel, south aisle, south porch and tower at the east end of the south aisle, in two storeys and with a stone broach spire with 3 tiers of lucarnes and a po1ygonal stair turret in the angle with the chancel. Geometric traceried windows, the east window of 5-lights. Buttresses with set-offs and coped gables with apex crosses. Gabled south porch. Vestry on north side of chancel with catslide roof and polygonal chimney stack with set-offs. Interior faced in Bath stone. Three bay arcade with short alternating round and octagonal piers with moulded capitals and bases and double-chamfered arches. Arch- braced nave and chancel roofs with cusped wind-braces Contemporary furnishings intact including wrought iron alter rail, choir stalls, seating, pulpit, lantern, reredos and font with wrought iron cover.
Listing NGR: SX7744666389
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