Church of St Luke
CHURCH OF ST LUKE, MAIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195002
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, MAIN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195002
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, MAIN ROAD
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, MAIN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Lancaster (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 47873 62572
Details
LANCASTER
SD4762 MAIN ROAD, Skerton 1685-1/3/340 (West side (off)) Church of St Luke
II
Parish church. 1833, with late C19 addition. Squared coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings. Slate roof with overhanging eaves. PLAN: west tower, a nave with north and south aisles under a continuous roof, and an added north vestry. EXTERIOR: the tower is of 3 stages with diagonal buttresses, corner pinnacles, and an embattled parapet. The west doorway is pointed and chamfered in 2 orders and has doors with blind tracery decoration. Above is a window of triple stepped lancets. The bell openings are single lancets. Single lancet windows light the west ends of the aisles. The north and south walls are of 7 bays separated by buttresses, with a single lancet window to each bay, and diagonal buttresses at the corners. The eastern end of the north wall is now covered by the added vestry. The east window is a triple stepped lancet flanked by single lancets lighting the aisles. INTERIOR: open timber roof of scissor-braced trusses. West gallery with timber front. Stained glass windows include one on the south side of the chancel depicting St Luke, in memory of Richard Clark (d.1838), and 5 windows in memory of members of the Whalley family.
Listing NGR: SD4787362572
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383188
- 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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