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unusual facts about ''St Matthew'', chiaroscuro wood engraving after Georges Lallemand



Michael Nicholas

He then became organist and choirmaster of St Matthew's Church, Northampton 1964 - 1971 before becoming organist and master of choristers at Norwich Cathedral.

Rejoice in the Lamb

The cantata was commissioned by the Revd Canon Walter Hussey for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the consecration of St Matthew's Church, Northampton.

Robert George Spencer Hudson

Hudson was educated at St Matthew's School and then Lawrence Sheriff School, where his interest in geology was started through a schoolmaster taking the students fossil hunting in the strata used for cement making.

St Luke's Church, Silverhill

The Anglican community also established their own church in the suburb: St Matthew's Church was founded on 21 September 1860 by Sarah Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave.

St Matthew's Academy

The school first opened on 29 October 2007 following the merger of pupils from St Andrews Academy, Saltcoats and St Michael's Academy, Kilwinning.

St Matthew's Anglican Church, Drayton

The Reverend Benjamin Glennie had a plan to establish the (then) Church of England on the Darling Downs through four churches in the larger towns named after the four apostles: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

St Matthew's Church, Brixton

Inside the church there is a wide gallery around three sides and in the west end is a Doric organ case.

St Matthew's Church, Guildford

It was a small octagonal mud-brick church, hastily built on land donated by Governor James Stirling on his Woodbridge estate, next to where Guildford Grammar School now stands.

St Matthew's Church, Millbrook

Built in 1840, the church is known for its glass-work by René Lalique.

St Matthew's Church, Northampton

These works included Gerald Finzi's Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice (1946), and later Benjamin Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb and Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms when his career took him to Chichester Cathedral.

St Matthew's was built by the Phipps family as a memorial to Mr Pickering Phipps (1836-1890), the head of Phipps Brewery in Bridge Street, Northampton.

St Matthew's Church, Sheffield

It is now surrounded by the Devonshire Quarter of Sheffield, an area of independent retail outlets, pubs and bars with a large student population.

There are three main stained glass windows, the east window which dates from 1886 depicts the Incarnation and includes St Matthew and other saints in its design.

The altar and reredos are also by Sedding with carvings by Frank Tory and a centrepiece painting of the Adoration by Nathaniel Westlake.

St Matthew's Church, Wigan

It was paid for by Colonel Henry Blundell, owner of the Pemberton Colliery, in memory of his wife, Beatrice who had died in 1884.

St Matthew's Church, Willesden

Responsibility for the school is shared between the parish and All Souls Church in Harlesden.

St Matthew's, Auckland

In recent years, St Matthew's has held civic memorial services for the victims of AIDS and the Air New Zealand Flight 901 disaster on Mount Erebus.

St Matthew's, Leicester

It is, statistically, the most deprived neighbourhood in Leicester today and the most income deprived neighbourhood in England (Indices of deprivation 2007).

St Matthew's, Westminster

It was sculpted by Guy Reid, a former Artist in Residence at St Matthew’s, and has a real theological intensity.


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