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St Matthew's Church, Stalling Busk is a
Grade II listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
parish church in the
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in
Stalling Busk Stalling Busk is one of three settlements around Semer Water in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire in the small dale of Raydale just off from Wensleydale, England. The hamlet lies to the immediate south of the lake. As well as th ...
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North Yorkshire North Yorkshire is the largest ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county (lieutenancy area) in England, covering an area of . Around 40% of the county is covered by National parks of the United Kingdom, national parks, including most of ...
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History

The church was commissioned by the Rev Frederick Squibb in 1906, to replace the seventeenth-century Old St Matthew's Church. Building work started in 1908 and the church was dedicated in October 1909. The architect was Thomas Gerard Davidson and the church is built in an
Arts and Crafts A handicraft, sometimes more precisely expressed as artisanal handicraft or handmade, is any of a wide variety of types of work where useful and decorative objects are made completely by one’s hand or by using only simple, non-automated re ...
style.The Buildings of England. Yorkshire The North Riding. Nikolaus Pevsner. Penguin Group. p.69


Parish status

The church is in a joint parish with *
St Oswald's Church, Askrigg St Oswald's Church is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Askrigg, North Yorkshire. History The church dates largely from the 15th century, but there is some earlier work. It is of stone construction in the Perpendicular ...
* St Margaret's Church, Hawes * St Mary and St John's Church, Hardraw


See also

* Listed buildings in Bainbridge, North Yorkshire


References

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St Matthew Matthew the Apostle,, shortened to ''Matti'' (whence ar, مَتَّى, Mattā), meaning "Gift of YHWH"; arc, , Mattai; grc-koi, Μαθθαῖος, ''Maththaîos'' or , ''Matthaîos''; cop, ⲙⲁⲧⲑⲉⲟⲥ, Mattheos; la, Matthaeus a ...
Church of England church buildings in North Yorkshire Grade II listed churches in North Yorkshire Churches completed in 1909 Arts and Crafts architecture in England