Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK54SE HUCKNALL ROAD
646-1/4/294 (North East side)
Hospital Church of St Luke at City
Hospital
II
Chapel, now store. 1902, altered 1975. Red brick with Bulwell
stone plinth and slate and plain tile roofs. Tower and main
gables have irregular patches of Bulwell stone texturing.
PLAN: chancel with porch and organ chamber, transepts,
porches, nave with aisles, west porch, south-west tower.
Cruciform plan.
EXTERIOR: plinth, buttresses, gables. Windows have stone
surrounds and mullions. East end, flanked by tiled buttresses,
has a round-arched window, 7-lights, with reticulated tracery.
On each side, a flat-headed mullioned window, 3-lights. In the
return angles, to south a flat roofed porch and to north, a
lean-to organ chamber.
Transepts have gable windows similar to the east end, and
single light segment-headed windows to east. In the return
angles to west, a flat roofed porch with double doors and side
window.
Nave, 5 bays, has tiled buttresses. On each side 5 flat-headed
mullioned windows, 3-lights. Above, an ashlar box dormer with
lead roof and 4 mullioned windows, 3-lights. West end has a
semicircular window, 9-lights, with reticulated tracery. Full
width west porch has flat lead roof. In the centre, rounded
steps to a pair of doorways. To right, a vestibule with a
single window. To left, a larger vestibule with 2 windows
divided by a tiled buttress, and a 2-light window to north.
Round tower, 2 stages, has crenellated parapet and set back
copper-clad needle spire and finial. Bell stage has mullioned
louvred bell openings all round.
INTERIOR: brick, largely original, with plasterboard and stud
partition dividing nave west of crossing. Nave and chancel
have round-arched boarded roofs with king posts and arch
braces to cross beams. Chancel has moulded round-headed brick
arch, and similar arch on north side with panelled screen.
Segment-arched recess on south side. Organ chamber has a
segment-arched window to east.
Transepts have round arches and principal rafter roofs with
ceilings. North transept has a door into the organ chamber.
Nave has round-arched arcades on square piers with glazed
brick plinths. At the west end, 2 segment-arched recesses
flanked by round-arched doorways. Aisles have segment-arched
doorways to east and round-arched doors to west. Lean-to
roofs.
Fittings include original Baroque style painted wooden pulpit
and steps, baluster stemmed lectern, altar rail with turned
balusters, and 2 panelled benches.
(Bagthorpe to the City: Story of a Nottingham Hospital: Dr J
Macfie: Nottingham: 1984-: 30).
Listing NGR: SK5656343917
