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Latitude: 52.5278 / 52°31'40"N
Longitude: -2.076 / 2°4'33"W
OS Eastings: 394943
OS Northings: 292218
OS Grid: SO949922
Mapcode National: GBR 4R7.Q7
Mapcode Global: VH914.YQWK
Plus Code: 9C4VGWHF+4J
Entry Name: Church of St Matthew
Listing Date: 29 September 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1342643
English Heritage Legacy ID: 219284
ID on this website: 101342643
Location: Tipton Green, Sandwell, West Midlands, DY4
County: Sandwell
Electoral Ward/Division: Tipton Green
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Tipton
Traditional County: Staffordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Midlands
Church of England Parish: Tipton St Matthew
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
Tagged with: Church building
SANDWELL MB DUDLEY ROAD
SO 99 SW
Tipton
3/76 Church of St Matthew
II
Church. 1876 by J H Gibbons. Brick in English bond with tile roof. Comprises
a nave with clerestory, lower two-storey west porch, lower chancel with five-
sided apse, very narrow aisles, north vestry, and south-east tower. West wall
has triple stepped lancets below gable, and single lancets to each side below
parapets. The central doorway has a pointed arch and a stone tympanum carved
with a figure of St Matthew. Nave of six bays, with paired lancets to the
aisles and triple lancets to the clerestory. The tower has angle buttresses,
a south doorway, two lancet bell openings on each side, and a pierced parapet
with corner pinnacles and gargoyles. Interior: west gallery within pointed arch-
way. Six-bay arcades of pointed brick arches springing from round piers with
foliated capitals. Open timber roof with arched principals carried on corbels,
with vertical iron rods and iron tie rods. Pointed brick chancel arch has
engaged corbelled shafts as responds, with foliated capitals. Apse roof has
timber ribs springing from corbels between windows. Organ on south side set
within brick archway. East windows contain early C20 glass depicting Christ
and the four evangelists.
Listing NGR: SO9494392218
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