Church of St Luke
CHURCH OF ST LUKE, TIDEFORD CROSS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311215
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, TIDEFORD CROSS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311215
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, TIDEFORD CROSS LANE
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, TIDEFORD CROSS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Germans
- National Grid Reference:
- SX3478159911
Details
ST GERMANS TIDEFORD CROSS LANE (east side),
SX 35 NW
Tideford
4/139 Church of St Luke
23.1.68
GV II
Parish church. 1845 by George Wightwick. Coursed greenstone rubble with limestone
dressings. Slate roof with raised coped verges to chancel.
Plan: Nave and chancel, with south porch to nave and north vestry to chancel.
Nave: has weathered buttresses, on the south side a 2-light and a 3-light window
with 4-centred arched head, hood mould and Perpendicular tracery; bay to west has
gabled porch with tall 4-centred arched doorway, double doors, raised coped verges
and kneelers to gable with cross finial, moulded eaves cornice. West end of nave has
similar 2-light window with Y-tracery. To north, two 3-light windows and central 2-
light window, as to south. Slate-hung bellcote with bell, spire with cross finial.
Chancel: at lower roof level, has 3-light east window with cusped lights and
reticulated tracery, similar 2-light south window. Vestry to north.
Interior: Nave has 4-bay hammer-beam roof rising from stone corbels. Stepped
chamfered 4-centred arch to chancel. Pointed arched door to north vestry, with
squint doorway giving access to pupit by chancel arch. Chancel windows have busts as
stops to hood moulds.
Fittings: Fine Norman font, from chapel of St Luke near Bolventor. C19 wooden
benches in nave, readers' desks in chancel with poppy head ends. Panelled wooden
pulpit in nave.
Monuments: marble tablet on slate ground, in the chancel, to Elizabeth Bury, 1853.
Sources: Radcliffe, E. : Buildings of England: Cornwall 1970.
Listing NGR: SX3478159911
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 62135
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, (1970)
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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