Church of St Luke
CHURCH OF ST LUKE, A 593
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087212
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, A 593
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087212
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, A 593
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, A 593
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Torver
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 28479 94286
Details
TORVER A593 SD 29 SE (East side) 7/192 Church of St Luke 25.3.70
GV II
Church. 1884. By Paley and Austin. Dressed slate with red sandstone dressings, slate roofs. Nave, chancel and tower between, north lean-to vestry. Coped gables. Round-headed windows have sandstone dressings. 3-bay nave has south gabled porch, entrance with shafts and arch with zig-zag and roll moulding; north side of nave has 2 windows. West end has paired windows under continuous hoodmould on sill band. Tower has deep weathered buttresses to north and south, and tall windows with weathering above; louvred bell openings and coped cornice; squat pyramidal roof and fish to weather-vane. Chancel has 3 east windows with hollow-chamfered reveals, the central one wider, and continuous hoodmould. Vestry to west bay of chancel and tower has entrance with cambered lintel. Interior: arch-braced collar trusses, one with tie beam. Tower has round double-stepped arches, the inner steps corbelled, plain coffered ceiling. North organ loft. Plain octagonal font of uncertain date on later base.
Listing NGR: SD2847994286
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 76903
- 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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