Church of St Matthew, Tipton
Description: Church of St Matthew
Grade: II
Date Listed: 29 September 1987
English Heritage Building ID: 219284
OS Grid Reference: SO9494392218
OS Grid Coordinates: 394943, 292218
Latitude/Longitude: 52.5278, -2.0760
Location: 106 A4037, West Bromwich, Sandwell DY4 8DJ
Locality: Tipton
Local Authority: Sandwell
County: West Midlands
Country: England
Postcode: DY4 8DJ
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Listing Text
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
Source: English Heritage
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