Church of St Luke

CHURCH OF ST LUKE, BURPHAM LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1029301
Date first listed:
15-Mar-1988
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST LUKE, BURPHAM LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1029301
Date first listed:
15-Mar-1988
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST LUKE, BURPHAM LANE

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST LUKE, BURPHAM LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Surrey
District:
Guildford (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 01294 52458

Details

TQ 05SW GUILDFORD BURPHAM LANE (West Side) Burpham 2/5 Church of St. Luke

II Church. 1859 by Henry Woodyer, porch added in 1961. Rough-dressed coursed Bargate stone with ashlar plinth and dressings; plain tiled roof over. Ashlar bellcote under wood-shingled spirelet. Nave and chancel with bellcote to west and porch to south. Lancet fenestration in Early English Style with sill string courses and two buttresses below on north and south sides. Full height buttresses at junction of nave and chancel. Gabled porch to south with chamfered entrance arch and hollow-chamfered door surround. Shouldered head to door with scrolled C-strap hinges. Paired, foiled-head lancet fenestration on the chancel with 3 windows on the south side. 5-light east window with lights stepping up towards the centre, quatrefoil panel above. Further eastern lancet window, in end of pent-roofed vestry along the north side of the chancel. 2-light leaded casement fenestration on the vestry with quoined offset stack at the junction of the chancel. Arched vestry door faces west. Central buttress to west end of church with flanking lancet windows. Wheel window above with baluster 'spokes' and floral carving in deep chamfered surround. Bellcote on gable apex with paired human-head corbel stops; attached shafts with moulded caps and plinths to east and west fronts of bellcote, one shaft on north and south sides. Wooden canopies project over the shafts on the east and west faces. Interior:- Scissor-braced 5-bay nave roof with through purlins. Chamfered chancel arch with jamb shafts and moulded caps and bases. Chancel roof with two tiers of purlins with cusped windbracing and arched collar braces to long post trusses. Trefoil-head two-light rear window arcades, the east window arcade with dogs-tooth decoration and girdle moulding on jamb shafts. C19 pulpit of standard design. Unusual sedilia placed under south east chancel window arcade.

PEVSNER BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.122.

Listing NGR: TQ0129452458

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288867
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 122

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