- St Matthew's Church, Haslington
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St Matthew's Church, Haslington 
West end of St Matthew's Church, HaslingtonLocation in Cheshire
St Matthew's Church, HaslingtonCoordinates: 53°06′12″N 2°23′38″W / 53.1034°N 2.3939°W OS grid reference SJ 737 564 Location Haslington, Cheshire Country England Denomination Anglican Website St Matthew, Haslington History Dedication St Matthew Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Designated 12 January 1967 Architect(s) Reginald T. Longden Architectural type Church Groundbreaking 1810 Completed 1909 Specifications Materials Brown brick with slate roof Administration Parish Haslington Deanery Nantwich Archdeaconry Macclesfield Diocese Chester Province York Clergy Vicar(s) Rev Anne Lawson St Matthew's Church, Haslington, is located in the village of Haslington, Cheshire, England. The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.[1] It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Nantwich. Its benefice is combined with that of St Michael and All Angels, Crewe Green.[2]
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History
The authors of the Buildings of England series describe this as a church of "two builds", both of which are "handsome". The west part was built in 1810. The east end was built in 1909 and was designed by Reginald T. Longden.[3]
Architecture
Exterior
The church is built in brown brick with a slate roof. Its plan consists of a three-bay nave and a chancel. The entrance is at the west end through a gabled porch. The doors are in a semicircular arched doorway above which is a lunette window, and over that is a clock face in the tympanum. On the top of the gable and slightly recessed is a timber louvred bell turret with a lead ogee cupola. The nave windows have semicircular heads. The flat-headed east window has seven lights.[1]
Interior
The reredos is in oak and has a frieze with a grapevine motif. The carved communion rail is in Gothic style. The nave walls have wainscotting to a dado height.[1] The organ was built in 1900 in Steele and Keay, and rebuilt in 1967 by Reeves.[4]
References
- ^ a b c "The Church of St Matthew, Haslington", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1312885, retrieved 6 May 2011
- ^ Haslington, St Matthew, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/haslington-st-matthew/, retrieved 9 October 2009
- ^ Hartwell, Claire; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, pp. 391–392, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6
- ^ Haslington St. Matthews, British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D04428, retrieved 15 August 2008
Categories:- Church of England churches in Cheshire
- Grade II listed churches
- Grade II listed buildings in Cheshire
- 1810 architecture
- 19th-century Anglican church buildings
- Religious buildings completed in 1909
- Diocese of Chester
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