CHURCH OF ST LUKE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1139134
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1970
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, THE VILLAGE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, THE VILLAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 61436 78869
Details
SJ 67 NW WHITLEY C.P. THE VILLAGE
Lower Whitley
5/119 Church of St Luke
8/1/70
GV II*
Church, a chapel rebuilt at expense of Thomas Touchet late C16 and
roofed early C17; the exterior altered and much restored 1864 and
later. English garden wall bond brown brickwork with stone dressings;
grey slate roofs. A small church with west porch, north-west
bell-turret, organ chamber, 1879, expressed as south transept, chancel
and polygonal-apse sanctuary. Softwood-framed west porch on brick
plinth; small, square, diminishing turret with 1 bell in stone belfry
and slate spire. Mullioned windows of red sandstone have round-arched
lights; pointed 3-light East window with rudimentary tracery.
Interior: Outstanding hammer-beam arch-braced collar trusses, 4 in
nave and 3 in chancel, have richly-carved scrolly console brackets
with volutes and foliar patterns on main faces and humorously small
Atlases and beasts on the lower scrolls struggling to support the
overhanging brackets; good turned drop finials; lower arrises of
hammer-beams, principal rafters and purlins have recesses carved with
corbel-blocks; split quatrefoil windbraces in chancel. roof. Common
rafters and roof-boarding replaced. Pointed stone chancel-arch
contemporary with roof. Sanctuary and oak screen look mid-Victorian;
organ 1879; late C19 glass in memory of Frances Belcrow.
Listing NGR: SJ6143678869
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 57588
- 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.
End of official listing