page_title: St Matthew's Church, Northampton
section_title: Liturgy
hierarchical_section_title: St Matthew's Church, Northampton / Liturgy
caption_attribution_description: English: St Matthew's Church, Northampton. The triptych in the Lady Chapel by C E Buckeridge.
context_page_description: 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. He celebrated the church's 50th anniversary with a sequence of events and commissions: the commission of the anthem Rejoice in the Lamb from Benjamin Britten; a performance from the BBC Symphony Orchestra; an organ recital by George Thalben-Ball, and the commission of Henry Moore's sculpture "Madonna and Child".
  Buoyed by the success of the 1943-4 commissions, Hussey continued to commission new works of art. Other musical commissions included The Revival by Edmund Rubbra; Festival Anthem by Lennox Berkeley, Lo, the full, final sacrifice from Gerald Finzi, and works by Christopher Headington, Malcolm Arnold and others. There were commissions of poetry: a Litany and Anthem for St Matthew's Day from W. H.
context_section_description: St Matthew's follows an Anglican service with Catholic traits. The church celebrates two Eucharistic services on a Sunday including a Parish Mass at 10.15am which is Choral on Feast Days. The Parish Mass is pro populo on the nave altar and the lectern has recently been moved from the chancel step to the high altar to make way for a traditional statue of St Matthew.  Choral Evensong is sung twice a month with Benediction following the service on the third Sunday of each. The church maintains a daily Eucharist service and has done since its founding in 1893. The Daily Offices of Morning and Evening Prayer are also said publicly every day of the year.
caption: The triptych in the Lady Chapel by C. E. Buckeridge
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