St Matthew's church is located on the south side of Christchurch Road at its junction with Hereford Street. It was built in Early English style in 1891-2 to designs of local architects Graham & Hitchcox. Built of rock-faced Pennant sandstone with Bath stone dressings, its plan comprises a canted east apse, short transepts and wide low nave - a design for preaching rather than ritualistic worship. There is a prominent north-west belfry turret and a gabled porch on the west gable. Inside, over the central space looms a roof structure of big arched braces rising to a flat, boarded polygon. The nave has been partitioned off to form a hall.
Source: extracts from J.Newman, Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire (2000), p.432.

RCAHMW, 13 February 2015