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
Constituency
South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 May 1985
Type
Church
Period
Victorian
Address
Church of St Matthew, Staverton
OS grid reference
SX 774 663
Coordinates
50.48445, -3.72884
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Matthew is a parish church built between 1849 and 1850 by architect J L Pearson, designed in the Decorated style. It is constructed from stone rubble with freestone dressings and has Welsh slate roofs. The church features a nave, chancel, south aisle, south porch, and a tower located at the east end of the south aisle. The tower is two storeys high and topped with a stone broach spire that has three tiers of lucarnes and a polygonal stair turret at the angle with the chancel. The windows are decorated with geometric tracery, including a prominent east window with five lights. The exterior is supported by buttresses with set-offs and coped gables adorned with apex crosses. The south porch is gabled, and there is a vestry on the north side of the chancel, which has a catslide roof and a polygonal chimney stack with set-offs.

Inside, the church is faced with Bath stone and features a three-bay arcade supported by short alternating round and octagonal piers, each with moulded capitals and bases, and double-chamfered arches. The roofs of the nave and chancel are arch-braced and include cusped wind-braces. The church retains its original furnishings, which include a wrought iron altar rail, choir stalls, seating, a pulpit, a lantern, a reredos, and a font with a wrought iron cover.

Local climate

Church of St Matthew receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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