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Description

730/1/2 SCARBOROUGH AVENUE
20-APR-76 CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW

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DATES/ARCHITECTS:
1879-85 by James Fowler, W extension 1902-4 by W and C A Bassett Smith.

MATERIALS:
Coursed, squared stone. Tiled and slated roofs. Timber bell turret.

PLAN:
Apsidal chancel with N organ chamber, aisled nave, S porch and W annex.

EXTERIOR:
A large church in an Early English style, without the intended W tower to balance it, set in a prominent position. Apsidal chancel with lancets with shafted outer arches and a prominent corbel table. N organ chamber like a transept. The nave has paired lancets in the clerestory and lancets in the aisles, all with hood moulds. Gabled N doorway and gabled S porch. The W bay of the nave, an extension when the proposed tower was not built, has plain, heavily buttressed faces to N and S. The W window is a pair of lancets within a triplet of rich blind arcading with detached shafts. A further triplet of lancets in the W gable.