Church of St Luke
CHURCH OF ST LUKE, MERLE TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292949
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, MERLE TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292949
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, MERLE TERRACE
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, MERLE TERRACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 37590 57376
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ35NE MERLE TERRACE 920-1/4/140 (West side) 10/11/78 Church of St Luke (Formerly Listed as: MERLE STREET, Pallion (West side) Church of St Luke)
II
Parish church. 1874. By JP Pritchett. Thin uneven courses of rubble with ashlar dressings and red sandstone nookshafts, roof of graduated stone slates with stone gable copings. High chancel and 5-bay nave with S aisle, N porch and NE tower. EXTERIOR: late C13 style with geometric tracery to 4-light E window, 3-light W under vesica. NE tower has N door, 2-light window in second stage and blind roundels in short third stage, tall louvred belfry openings with crocket-capitalled shafts, parapet and corner blocks replacing pinnacles removed in 1982 when spire taken down. Gabled N porch has ball flower stopped dripmould over roll moulded arch on water leaf capitalled nook shafts. Inner arch in similar style to doors with tendril wrought-iron hinges. INTERIOR: high chancel arch on paired corbelled shafts. Blind S arcade with block capitals on pilasters,and roll-moulded soffits to N arcade with crocket capitals on round piers, both red sandstone, the N with high ogee-moulded bases. Scissor-braced roof on moulded corbels has 2 levels of purlins and ashlar posts to common rafters. Painted stone reredos has 4 cusped arches on shafts. Octagonal stone font with crocket shafts and high relief panels on each side of bowl showing symbols of evangelists. Pews panelled with shaped ends. High quality glass in E window shows Christ in Glory with Passion and Crucifixion, commemorating Martha Short, wife of George Short [shipbuilder], d.1893; W window in N aisle by Powell & Bros., Leeds, to George Short, d.1863, in medieval style showing Noah and Ark, and St Joseph the carpenter. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914.: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1983-: 23).
Listing NGR: NZ3759057376
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391518
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Corfe, T, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, (1983), 23
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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