Church of St Luke
CHURCH OF ST LUKE, LABURNUM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256926
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, LABURNUM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256926
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, LABURNUM 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, LABURNUM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newton Abbot
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 87344 70137
Details
NEWTON ABBOT
SX8770 LABURNUM ROAD, Milber
1012-1/11/172 (South side)
CHURCH OF ST LUKE
II
Church. Begun 1936 and completed 1963, to the 1931 designs of
Arthur Martin.
MATERIALS: rendered walls with slate roofs; copper-clad tower
roof.
PLAN: planned in the form of a St Andrew's Cross, with 3
angled naves converging on the altar with an apsidal chancel.
STYLE: Byzantine-Romanesque.
EXTERIOR: round-arched 3-light windows to north and south
sides of chancel. Squat crossing tower with pyramidal roof,
shallow clasping buttresses and plat band meeting imposts of
2-light round-arched belfry windows; the tower has triangular
projections with tall cavetto-moulded lights which connect to
radiating chapels with similar 4-light windows.
Chapels have, to west, similar 2-light windows and then angled
links, each with segmental-arched surround to doorway,
connected to outer faces of projecting west front; the west
front has slightly projecting outer bays clasping recessed and
gabled centre, with small round-arched light above continuous
plat band and then large west window (round-arched and
shouldered) above limestone ashlar surround framing central
doorway and flanking 2-light square-headed windows; the outer
projecting blocks have round-arched one-light windows.
INTERIOR: of exceptional spatial quality, with the 3 naves
radiating from the centre being linked together by arcades
with granite columns, which are surmounted above by
round-arched clerestorey windows; chapels are barrel-vaulted,
and have granite columns with moulded capitals to deep
rere-arches. The narthex is partitioned from the naves by a
leaded glass screen, and has two staircases leading to the
gallery above. Plain and severe design to high altar; pulpit
is a later design, objected to by Arthur Martin who designed
moveable lectern.
Remarkable for its interior spatial quality and extraordinary
centralised plan, which anticipates one of the principal
characteristics of post-war planning. The design for the
church was revealed to the vicar, J Keble Martin (brother of
the architect and celebrated author of British Flora), in a
dream.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-).
Listing NGR: SX8734470137
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464432
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989)
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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