Built in 1846–1847 principally to designs by Bath City Architect George Phillips Manners, the church stands above the Widcombe Locks of the Kennet and Avon Canal and opposite the Church Room Institute on Cambridge Place.

The church is dismissively described by Nikolaus Pevsner in his Buildings of England guides as "St. Matthew, Cambridge Place, Widcombe.

Dull, in the Dec[orative] style, with a [south] tower carrying a broach spire.

[3] In the summer of 2014 a newly planted congregation led by a new full-time Priest in Charge recommenced weekly worship service on Sunday evenings.

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