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St Matthew

St Matthew

Salford Priors CP

Warwickshire

Nave and tower C12

Architectural Features

Chancel and addition to nave C13

Tower heightened and enlarged either in C15

C17: dated 1633 on south wall

Tile roofs

Mid C12 Romanesque north doorway: decorated shafts, left capital of ribbed bands, right of 2 decorated scallops

Three C13 lancets, and fine 3-light Decorated window with flowing tracery

South aisle has Decorated doorway of 2-orders and hood mould with carved heads

Parapet on moulded cornice, and 3 fine original carved gargoyles

First stage with clasping buttresses, Romanesque west window with chevron arch, and 2 small C12 windows high up on north and west

Chancel has C19 panelled wagon roof with carved angels below

Late C19 reredos and encaustic tile paving

Fine C17 wall monuments of the Clarke family

Dame Margaret, Thomas and Walter, erected c.1631: big tablet with 18- coats of arms and small figure

Margaret Clarke c.1640: kneeling figure in niche

Lady Dorothea c.1669: coloured semi-reclining figure, steep pediment and black columns

3 other C17 wall monuments in nave, and aisle, stone coffin lid of Sir Simon Clarke, died 1637

3-bays later C12: narrow 2-centred arches with heads at apex, wide stretches of wall between, and responds of multi-scalloped capitals

Easternmost C13 arch wider

Aisle has lean-to roof, panelled with moulded beams on corbels, Some fragments of carved woodwork from pulpit

Turret is noted as having newel staircase with C14 moulded capital at top and extra shaft above

C19 and C20 stained glass in many windows