Holbeach St Matthew is a small fenland village in the South Holland district of southern Lincolnshire, England. It lies north-east from Holbeach, south from The Wash, and within Holbeach Marsh.
In 1885 Kelly’s noted that the village was in the ecclesiastical parish of Holbeach Marsh, that a school for 72 children was about to be built, that its area was of , and had an 1881 population of 743. The hamlet's chapel of ease, dedicated to St Matthew, was built 1868-69 by Ewan Christian in Early English style, and was capable of holding 110 persons.Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 477 It is constructed of brick, has a combined nave and chancel, a south porch, and an east of nave turret with bell.Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire p. 575; Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram in 1989, Yale University Press. The chapel, now redundant, has been converted to residential use."St Matthew's, Holbeach", Oldchurchhouse.co.uk. Retrieved 27 October 2011
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Holbeach, Genuki. Retrieved 26 October 2011