St Matthew's Church, is in New Hall Lane,

Preston Preston is a place name, surname and given name that may refer to: Places England *Preston, Lancashire, an urban settlement **The City of Preston, Lancashire, a borough and non-metropolitan district which contains the settlement **County Boro ...

, Lancashire, England. It is an active

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parish church in the deanery of Preston, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn. The church was built in 1881–83 to a design by James Hibbert. In 1932–33

Henry Paley Henry Anderson Paley (1859–1946) (usually known as Harry Paley) was an English architect. Training and career He was the fifth and last child of the Lancaster architect Edward Paley. He was educated at Castle Howard School in Lancaster, then ...

of the Lancaster practice of Austin and Paley added a chapel and vestries and completed the chancel at a cost of £2,637 (). The plan of the church consists of a nave, north and south aisles, a chancel with a

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apse, and a porch treated as a transept. Hartwell and Pevsner in the '' Buildings of England'' series comment that it is "an interesting building by the architect of the Harris Museum.

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