Weight: 454 lbs Diameter: 30" Bell 1 of 1
Founded by Mears & Stainbank 1870
Dove Bell ID: 56187 Tower ID: 21336 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: quarter Cracked: No
Hull: St Matthew w St Barnabas
Overview
Grid reference: TA 78 286
This large Victorian Gothic church of yellow brick with impressively tall steeple is now located on the junction of The Boulevard with Anlaby Road, the latter being the main road leading into Hull centre, with a flyover crossing over the railway line adjacent to the church, severely impacting on the setting of the church. It was designed by Adams & Kelly of Leeds, completed in 1868-71, with a grant from the ICBS. St Matthew's is in the Early English style with red brick banding, and also features a three-stage tower with spire, lancets, and plate tracery.
Visiting and facilities
Building is closed for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
Six-bay aisled nave, north porch, chancel, side chapels, south-east vestry, north-west tower.
Dimensions:
Nave 25m (80ft) x 5m (16ft), aisles 3m wide, chancel 8m long.
Footprint of Church buildings: 689 m²
Description of Archaeology and History
Designed by Adams & Kelly of Leeds, completed in 1868-1871. Screens were provided at the east ends of the aisles in 1931. The interior was reordered in the 1980s with a room within the west end which now house a creche and other activities.
Archaeological remains relating to earlier settlement remains are possible although not expected on this site; the local authority and HER should be consulted if any development is considered.
Exterior Description
A large yellow-brick Victorian church in the Early English style with red brick banding, a serious and accurate design with lancets and plate tracery. The huge south-east tower is of three stages with plinth, string courses and corbel table. The octagonal broach spire has a single tier of gabled lucarnes and above this a tier of small double lancets with oval windows above them.
The bell stage has two pairs of louvred double lancet bell openings on each side. Second stage has on each side two pairs of very tall, narrow lancets. Lower stage has a single lancet to north and a door to east, each with two small lancets above it. To the east, above the aisle roof, two similar small lancets. Shouldered doorway to the stairs with lamp bracket above.
The west end of the nave has a tall recess with a plate tracery window consisting of traceried circular window and below it, two double lancets. Below, a double rebated doorway. The aisled nave has a plinth, cogged eaves, buttresses, and coped gables. The clearstorey has six small triple lancet windows on each side.
The north aisle has four 3-light plate tracery windows to east of the porch and another to west. West end has a 2-light. The gabled north-west porch (now disused) has a chamfered and rebated doorway with wrought-iron gate, and a single unglazed lancet in each side. South aisle has six 3-light plate tracery windows and a 2-light at the west end. The chancel apse has three 3-light plate tracery windows, and a single lancet to the side walls. South-eastern vestry has to east a triple lancet and a corner stack.
Building Fabric and Features
Nave
19th century six-bay aisled
Porch
19th century north
Chancel
19th century
Chapel (component)
19th century side chapels
Vestry
19th century south-east
Tower (component)
19th century north-west
Building Materials
Brick
19th century yellow brick with red brick banding
Stone
19th century freestone dressings
Slate
19th century roofs
Interior
Interior Description
The interior is mainly plastered and whitewashed, it impresses with its sense of scale. There is much stained glass giving colour. The nave has a fine scissor-braced roof with collars. The aisles have transverse arches with hoodmoulds, the eastern arch in the north aisle with organ pipes above a traceried door. South-east round arch has traceried screen and overlight behind simple Lady Chapel.
The nave has aisle arcades with roll-moulded brick arches with hoodmoulds and angel stops, round stone columns with square foliate capitals and octagonal bases. Wooden benches with shaped ends, tiled floors. The entrance from the porch has a Victorian traceried panelled internal porch with ironwork and crest. The two south-west bays were screened off forming a Sunday School / creche in 1987.
Looking east, tall rebated roll-moulded brick chancel arch with keystone and hoodmould and slender piers. At the moment a mesh is spanned across the east bay of the nave to catch falling plaster, partly obscuring the arch. The chancel has a waggon roof with arch braces and wooden wall shafts on angel corbels. Wooden ribs to apse. String course and sill band, traceried wood panelling to east end. Good traceried choir stalls and desks with poppyheads. Small chapel in the organ chamber behind the pipes in the north arch, vestry to the south.
Fixtures and fittings
Altar
19th century oak chests to chancel and chapels
Reredos
19th century plain Early English style screen around altar
Pulpit
19th century octagonal traceried pulpit
Lectern
19th century brass eagle lectern dated 1896
Rail
19th century oak with wrought-iron standards, plain to chapels
Font (component)
19th century panelled octagonal stone font with stepped wooden cover with flying buttresses and cross
Stained Glass (window)
20th century good collection of 20th century stained glass throughout church
Plaque (component)
19th / 20th century various tablets and brass monuments
Bells
Portable Furnishings and Artworks
registers dating from 1871
Churchyard
Grid reference: TA 78 286
Burial and War Grave Information
It is unknown whether the building is consecrated.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has been used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard is used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has war graves.
National Heritage record for England designations
There are no records of National Heritage assets within the curtilage of this site.
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
There are no records of Ancient, Veteran or Notable Trees within the curtilage of this site.
Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | No |
| Solar Thermal Panels | No |
| Biomass | No |
| Wind Turbine | No |
| Air Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ev Charging | No |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
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