Church of St Luke
Church of St Luke, Church Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291424
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Luke, Church Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291424
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Luke, Church Street
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, Church Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Newcastle-under-Lyme (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Silverdale
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 81776 46709
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 October 2021 to reformat the text to current standards
SJ84NW
644-1/3/64
NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME
Silverdale
CHURCH STREET (north side)
Church of St Luke
26/01/90
II
Parish Church. 1853. By R. Armstrong. Coursed and squared rubble with plain tiled roof with scalloped bands. Decorated style. South east tower and spire, nave and two aisles, chancel. Buttressed tower of three stages with paired lights in lower stage, clock above, and paired bell-chamber lights. Corbel table, octagonal brooch spire. Polygonal stair-turret in north east angle. South aisle porch, buttressed and with coped gable over simple chamfered archway. Buttresses divide aisle walls into bays, with two-light Decorated windows. West door in ogee arch with heavy mouldings, and three-light window over. East window to chancel of four-lights.
INTERIOR: five-bay Early English style arcades with alternate cylindrical and octagonal shafts. Raking trusses carry collars with queen struts to wind-braced roof. Simple moulded chancel arch. Encaustic tiles, possibly by Minton to chancel, which contains Stanier memorial, a large wall tablet erected in 1856 with bust beneath wide ogee arch flanked by pinnacles, the whole enriched with niches, crockets and foliate decoration. Stained glass: badly corroded representation of Life of Christ in east window, undated. Figures of Saints in north and south aisles, 1892 and 1897. Original oak pews. Chancel screen with three traceried arches and cross over, erected as war memorial.
Listing NGR: SJ8177646709
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385917
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974)
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/67344
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/26580
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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