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St Matthew's Church is on the right and the pale blue building in the distance is Anglia Ruskin University's Young Street Building.

The church hall of St Matthew’s Anglican Church. The church itself is attached to it on the right. The complex is Grade II-listed and was designed in 1866 by the Victorian architect Richard Reynolds Rowe (1824-99). He was the architect of the Cambridge Corn Exchange (1875-76) and is also credited with the design of the Red Cow public house on Guildhall Street (1898).

The front of the Grade II-listed St Matthew’s Anglican Church with its pyramid roof capped by a glazed octagonal lantern. It was designed in 1866 by the Victorian architect Richard Reynolds Rowe (1824-99) who was the architect of the Cambridge Corn Exchange (1875-76). He is also credited with the design of the Red Cow public house on Guildhall Street (1898).

The rear of St Matthew’s Anglican Church with its pyramid roof capped by a glazed octagonal lantern and its church hall. This Grade II-listed complex was designed in 1866 by the Victorian architect Richard Reynolds Rowe (1824-99), who was the architect of the Cambridge Corn Exchange (1875-76). He is also credited with the design of the Red Cow public house on Guildhall Street (1898). The church hall is nearest the photographer.

The yellow sign proclaims "Welcome to St Matthew's Church" - the Easter weather is not so encouraging

Designed by Richard Reynolds Rowe and completed in 1866, one of the new parish churches dedicated to the four Evangelists and built just outside the central ring road in the later 19th century to serve the expanding residential areas, St Matthews was situated "in a poor quarter" as noted by Pevsner. "Brick with lancets, humble but of unusual plan: Greek cross with octagonal centre ... Spectacular interior, the skylit octagon being faced with vigorous panelling - a kind of pitch-pine version of Ely." Rowe had assisted George Gilbert Scott in his restoration of the Octagon at Ely Cathedral in the previous decade. The eastern arm of the cruciform plan ends in an apse, and the building is constructed in gault brick with redbrick dressings. The Holy Table is said to have come from Trinity College Chapel and to date from the 17th century. Arthur Mee in 1939 described the church as "more curious than interesting". Cambridgeshire Churches http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/cammatt.htm St Matthew's is listed Grade II https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101268345-church-of-st-matthew-cambridge

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