Church of St Matthew is a Grade II* listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1987. Church.
Church of St Matthew
- WRENN ID
- pitched-newel-crow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Matthew, Leekfrith, Staffordshire Moorlands
- OS grid reference
- SJ 989 608
- Coordinates
- 53.14467, -2.01779
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Matthew is a parish church built in 1868 and 1873 by the architect Richard Norman Shaw. It is constructed of rough-faced coursed rubble with a tiled roof featuring verge parapets on the nave and south porch, as well as a central tower and chancel. The design is inspired by 14th-century architecture.
The nave, completed in 1873, consists of three bays set on a plinth with two-stage buttresses only on the sides of the west gable. It has three-light pointed windows with trefoil heads on the sides and roundels in the larger west window. There is a low-sided porch at the south-west end with a pointed arch entry, moulded imposts, and wrought iron strap hinges and bands over boarded doors.
The tower has approximately three stages, with a cambered-in design below the top stage and string courses between the half-stages. It is attached to, but narrower than, the east end of the nave, featuring buttresses on the north and south sides that die in at the bell chamber level. The lower stage has a heavily rebated two-light labelled pointed window, while the bell chamber has paired pointed windows on the north and south sides and paired quatrefoils on the east and west. The tower is topped with a pyramidal roof, which is a prominent feature of the church.
The chancel consists of one bay and includes two-light pointed windows, with a three-light window at the east end.
Local climate
Church of St Matthew receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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