Church of St Matthew
CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, CLARE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202083
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Matthew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, CLARE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202083
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Matthew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, CLARE ROAD
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, CLARE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 58752 74079
Details
BRISTOL
ST315874 CLARE ROAD, Cotham 901-1/35/1156 (South side) 01/11/66 Church of St Matthew
II
Church. 1833-5. By Thomas Rickman. Altered c1989. Pennant rubble and limestone dressings, roof not visible. Aisled nave and W tower. Perpendicular Gothic Revival style. A large 6-light transomed window in the gabled E end, with sill and hood drips, flanked by octagonal ashlar corner turrets with trefoil-panelled crenellated parapets; 4-centred arched ribbed aisle doors with narrow trefoiled one-light windows. N aisle has 5 bays each with 3-light transomed windows separated by thin buttresses, with an ashlar crenellated parapet; the clerestory windows have 2 lights and are blind below the transom, with a parapet above. Similar S aisle. The W front has a central 4-stage tower with diagonal buttresses and an octagonal SW stair turret, diminishing sharply at weathered stages to a slender spirelet; 4-centred door in a label with foliage to the spandrels, 2-light 2nd-stage transomed window, and round, blind panel to 3rd stage; tall 2-light louvred belfry windows with transoms and cinquefoil heads, cornice parapet and pinnacles; 4-centred panelled doors to aisles, blocked to make a half-blind window to the S. INTERIOR: 4-bay arcade of thin, square-section chamfered shafts to wide 4-centred arches; niches with corbelled bases and crocketed ogee hoods and finials between the arches; flat, panelled ceiling. A c1989 mezzanine has been inserted at the height of the old galleries, with stairs up from the W, and the bottoms of the columns enclosed; below are offices and meeting rooms, services are held in the upper part. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 293).
Listing NGR: ST5875274079
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379185
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 293
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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