Church of St Luke
CHURCH OF ST LUKE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198665
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198665
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE
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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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Garford
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 42929 96298
Details
GARFORD SU4296 17/80 Church of St. Luke
- II
Church. C13, rebuilt 1880 by Edwin Dolby of Abingdon. Coursed limestone rubble, ashlar dressings; gabled C19 tile roof. Nave with north aisle, and chancel with north chapel. 4 bays. Roof of east gable wall raised to higher pitch in 1880: C13 double-lancet window to chancel, and late C19 trefoil-headed window to north chapel. North wall has 3 late C19 three-light windows, with buttress to east and pointed chamfered doorway to west. South wall has C16 three-light mullioned window much restored c.1880, C15 two-light ogee-headed window and 2 similar 1880 windows: gabled timber porch of 1880, C13 pointed roll-moulded doorway to partly ancient door restored 1880. West gable wall has buttress and C13 lancet: timber belfry with hipped old tile roof. Interior: reredos with crucifixion scene. Candelabra hangs from crenellated tie beam of late C19 two-bay roof with moulded beams; late C19 tile floor, benches, altar rail and piscina. Late C19 arch to north chapel. Chancel screen has sixteen C15 open-traceried panels along cornice. Nave: late C19 benches, pulpit and lectern: wrought-iron hour-glass holder. Late C19 arch-braced roof and 4-bay north arcade with coloured shafts to column, and fine octagonal pulpit with foliate panels and blink marble shafts. North aisle has fine candelabra. Painting of church before 1880 restoration hangs next to south door in nave. (V.C.H.: Berkshire, p.359; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.146; National Monuments Record)..
Listing NGR: SU4292996298
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249578
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 359
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 146
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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