Church of St Luke
CHURCH OF ST LUKE, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084304
- Date first listed:
- 26-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, KING STREET
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- IOE01/05849/02
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084304
- Date first listed:
- 26-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, KING STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, KING STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Tameside (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 94054 97533
Details
SJ 99 NW,
3/140
DUCKINFIELD,
KING STREET,
CHURCH OF ST LUKE
II
Anglican parish church. 1889: designed by John Eaton & Sons of Ashton-under-Lyne.
Red brick with stone and terracotta dressings and decorative detailing; Welsh slate
roof with red cresting tiles. PLAN: nave of six bays with narrow aisles (not
registered externally); internal transepts (that to N containing the organ);
uninterrupted single-bay chancel with no aisles, and polygonally apsed sanctuary. W.
narthex, W bellcote; S baptistry (W bay of nave); SE vestry. EXTERIOR. W. front,
a well-managed composition. 3-bay narthex with parapet and regular triple lancets
to each bay: central gable with coping; both ends of the narthex are canted with
principal entrance to right (depressed doorway arch with blank arcaded tympanum
under gable). At the angles (i.e. between W and canted faces of the narthex) are two
large buttresses which above the parapet become flying buttresses and connect with
the W wall of nave where they receive polygonal turrets, and flank the large 5-light
stepped lancet windows under superordinate arch with hood moulds. Nave with
sprocketted roof; side walls: each bay with double lancets and continuous
label/impost string course. Gabled transepts similarly treated. INTERIOR. Arcades
with continuous hood moulds over square-section piers with demi-shafts to E and W
only which support the inner order. Transverse arches to aisles set very low.
Large and impressive canted, boarded roof to nave; principal over chancel rest on
stone carbel shafts. Contemporary fittings of a high Victorian character with much
punched tracery to choir stalls, reading desk, and polygonal pulpit (the latter-
usually for the date - with Soundboard) altar table and reredos. Decorative tiling
throughout.
A good example of a late - C19 church by a little-known architectural
practice that did, however, contribute considerably to the townscape of the Ashton
and environs, and was well versed in current architectural trends.
Listing NGR: SJ9405497533
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 358717
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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