Church of Saint Luke

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TF 09 NE HOLTON LE MOOR CHURCH LANE (south side) 5/9 Church of 1-11-66 Saint Luke

G.V. II

Parish Church, Cll, C13, 1854 restoration and rebuilding by George Place; 1926 alteration and addition by H.G. Gamble, unfinished; Coursed rubble ironstone, ashlar dressings, red brick, slate roofs with stone coped gables. Nave, south aisle and porch, south chapel, chancel, vestry, organ chamber. The south aisle is the original nave and has a gabled roof which terminates in a western gabled ashlar C19 bellcote with twin openings. The west end of the aisle has 2 stepped buttresses and 2 tall C19 lancets; in the return on the north side of the aisle is a carved C13 gravestone built into the wall. The west end of the nave is in brick and has 2 C20 lancets. The vestry is in ironstone and has a C20 lancet and a C20 Tudor style door opening. The vestry and organ chamber were obviously intended to be joined to form a north aisle but this has been left unfinished and the temporary walls are in brick, toothed out to take an ironstone extension. The north side of the nave has 2 three light C20 windows in perpendicular style. The organ chamber has a C20 lancet, a large opening, blocked by brick, and a C20 Tudor door opening. The east end is in brickwork, the flanking walls are in ironstone, again toothed out showing that the nave was intended to be extended. The east window is a C20 5 light in Perpendicular style. The east window of the south chapel is C19 3 light and the south side has a 2 light window, a door and a lancet, all in the Early English style. The south aisle has 2 C19 two light window and a single lancet. The C19 south porch leads to the Saxo Norman south door, possibly reset during the 1854 restoration; it is very low with plain imposts, slightly chamfered at their lower edge and has a semi circular arch with crudely cut tympanum. The interior; the 3 bay south arcade has C20 octagonal columns. The nave is entirely plain, and all fittings are C19 or C20. In the west end of the south aisle is a C13 capital inverted and set into the wall, used originally as a font. The hexagonal font is now a C20 reconstruction using some C12 fragments of a circular tub with cable moulding round the top. The south chapel walls are painted with stencil decoration and texts. The stained glass at the east end dates from 1893. In the vestry are 5 wall tablets to the Dixon family dating from late C18 to early C19.

Listing NGR: TF0821297820

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