St Matthew's was originally the parish church of the village of Weeke, on the road running NW out of the city towards Stockbridge. It remains a parish church, but is now part of the Winchester conurbation. It is a small, aisleless building of nave, S porch, weatherboarded bell turret, short chancel and N vestry. The nave, chancel and porch are cement rendered and the roofs are tiled including the pyramidal roof of the bell turret. The nave is fitted with 19thc. box pews and a W gallery of the same period. The only Romanesque feature recorded here is the S doorway. Although the plain jambs of the chancel arch and its hollow chamfered imposts may be considered Romanesque, the contemporary pointed and chamfered arches would appear to rule it out.

Weeke was included in the grant made to Winchester church by Kinegils (Cynegils), King of Wessex from 611 to 642, and was held by the prior and convent as part of the manor of Barton. It remained with that manor, and in the possession of the cathedral throughout the Middle Ages. Weeke was a chapelry dependent on St Mary of the Valleys near Winchester until the early 15thc., when Bishop Henry Beaufort united both St Mary's and its chapel to the parish church of St Anastasius without the walls of the city. By the end of the 15thc., the churches were in such a ruinous state that the other two were pulled down and Weeke chapel was restored and made a rectory. Around this time it was apparently dedicated to St Matthew, although it has sometimes been called St Mary's. The VCH called it Our Lady in 1908, but the church website has it as St Matthew as does the List Description. The gallery, box pews and vestry were added by the Winchester architect Owen Browne Carter (1806-59).

The proprtions of the doorway suggest an early date, perhaps c.1100.