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St Matthew's Church, Northampton is a Church of England parish church in Northampton, within the Diocese of Peterborough. The church is a Grade II* listed building. It was erected in memory of brewer and MP, Pickering Phipps, beside the Kettering Road. The architect was Matthew Holding. Canon John Rowden Hussey was vicar from its consecration in 1893 to 1937. Walter Hussey, vicar from 1937 to 1955 succeeding his father, was a patron of the arts. In the north transept is a stone sculpture, Madonna and Child, by Henry Moore and in the south transept a painting of the Crucifixion by Graham Sutherland. A more recent addition is a bronze statue of St Matthew by Ian Rank-Broadley.
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