Church of St Luke
CHURCH OF ST LUKE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376618
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376618
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, HIGH 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, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Luton (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 05656 23705
Details
TL 02 SE LUTON HIGH STREET
999/6/10001 Church of St Luke
II
Church. 1956. Seely and Paget. Grey-brown brick with red dressings and stone capitals and keystones. Brown pantiled roof to eaves; roofs of projecting wings of low pitch covered in copper sheets. Long, narrow double-height church space with gallery to liturgical north and ancillary rooms and chapel in 2-storey wings which project symmetrically from the road front, creating a `butterfly' plan. Entrance beneath gallery within 3-bay loggia to road front. 2-storey elevation to road. 5-bay centre, with round-headed openings, three central ones forming entrance loggia with flanking lunettes and cross-mullioned timber gallery windows above. Jutting 2 storey wings of 3 bays with small rectangular windows to inner faces and 3 giant order arches to returns. Paired dormers to centre of the roof, with linking segmental pedimented aedicule containing bell. Concrete roof finial surmounted by a cross, and with urns to its four supporting buttresses. All windows with timber frames and rectangular leaded lights. Rear with four round-headed windows set in round-headed relieving arches. Interior with giant round-headed arcade to north encompassing choir gallery which also houses the organ. Aisleless. Round-headed relieving arches with inset round windows to south side. Modillion cornice to flat plastered ceiling. Walls step diagonally inwards to short narrow sanctuary separated by timber balustrade from nave, and containing behind the altar a large painting of Christ by Norman Blamey. Font in centre at west end has a round, moulded stone bowl on brick piers and a timber cover with scrolled finials. An unusually planned church on account of its symmetry across the short axis and its projecting two-storey wings, features which give the building a civic rather than an ecclesiastical appearance. It is one of the most original and imaginative pieces of church design of its date, demonstrating the architects' deep understanding of classical architecture. It is also important for its fine work of art.
Listing NGR: TL0565623705
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470624
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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