Church of St Matthew
Church of St Matthew, Church Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088001
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Matthew
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Matthew, Church Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088001
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Matthew
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Matthew, Church Street
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Matthew, Church Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- High Peak (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hayfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 03698 86959
Details
SK 03 86
7/102
PARISH OF HAYFIELD
CHURCH STREET (West side)
Church of St Matthew
21.4.67
GV
II
Church. Foundations of 1386, tower built 1793, church rebuilt 1817-1818 by Bradbury and Rangeley, tower raised 1894. Coursed, squared, gritstone with quoins. Flush gritstone dressings. Coved cornice with embattled stone parapets. Nave with galleries, integral western tower, small eastern chancel bay.
Exterior: south elevation has four steps to wide doorcase with moulded imposts and keystone. Double studded doors. To east four tripartite windows with intersecting tracery. West elevation has central, slightly advanced, five stage tower. Central semi-circular headed window with projecting keystone, imposts and sill. Also leaded lights. Similar window over. Stringcourse band at base of twin semi-circular headed bell openings with Y tracery. Over, coved stringcourse and 1894 ashlar work. Fifth stage with clock faces to all sides, surmounted by coved stringcourse and embattled parapets with finials. To either side of tower blank walls. Modern extension to north-west corner. North wall similar to south. East elevation has advanced central bay with large plain panel tracery window.
Interior: wooden galleries with fielded panels to north, south and west, supported by thin quatrefoil cast iron columns and corbels decorated by a flowerhead. Moulded pointed arch to chancel. Original box pews under north and south galleries. Area under western gallery boxed off.
Late C19 stained glass to lower nave windows and chancel. Fine wall memorial to John Hague, dated 1786, of owed white marble inscribed plaque set in yellow marble. White marble surround carved with classical motifs: Classical cornice above surmounted by bust by Bacon. Below in crypt bases and part columns of 1386 church.
Sources for dates Bulmer and Co History,Topography and Directory of Derbyshire of 1895.
Listing NGR: SK0369886959
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 82082
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bulmer, T, History Topography and Directory of Derbyshire, (1895)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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