St Matthew's Church , is in New Hall Lane, Preston , Lancashire , England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Preston, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn .[1] The church was built in 1881–83 to a design by James Hibbert.[2] In 1932–33 Henry Paley of the Lancaster practice of Austin and Paley added a chapel and vestries and completed the chancel at a cost of £2,637 (equivalent to £240,000 in 2023).[3] [4] [5] The plan of the church consists of a nave, north and south aisles , a chancel with a canted apse , and a porch treated as a transept . Hartwell and Pevsner in the Buildings of England series comment that it is "an interesting building by the architect of the Harris Museum .[2]
^ St Matthew, Preston , Church of England , retrieved 31 August 2012
^ a b Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North , The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press , p. 546, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
^ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)" . MeasuringWorth . Retrieved 7 May 2024 .
^ Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin , Swindon: English Heritage , p. 253, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8
^ Price, James (1998), Sharpe, Paley and Austin: A Lancaster Architectural Practice 1836–1942 , Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies, p. 101, ISBN 1-86220-054-8