Church of St Luke

CHURCH OF ST LUKE, LIVERPOOL STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1386145
Date first listed:
18-Jan-1980
List Entry Name:
Church of St Luke
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST LUKE, LIVERPOOL STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1386145
Date first listed:
18-Jan-1980
List Entry Name:
Church of St Luke
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST LUKE, LIVERPOOL 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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST LUKE, LIVERPOOL STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Salford (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SJ 80013 98621

Details

SALFORD

SJ89NW LIVERPOOL STREET 949-1/4/70 (South side) 18/01/80 Church of St Luke

II*

Parish church. 1865, the chancel chapel added 1875. By George Gilbert Scott. Coursed sandstone rubble with plain-tiled roof. Gothic style with nave with clerestory and aisles. EXTERIOR: lower chancel with semicircular apse and attached chapels to N and S with parallel ridges and end gables. Projecting gabled porch to N. Slim tower over W end with angle buttresses and bell chamber lights with paired lancets. Brooch spire above with lucarnes. Nave of 4 bays, with paired lancets to aisles with foiled circular windows to clerestory. Paired lancets between buttresses to apse, and similar to side chapels but with plate tracery. Stone plinth with continuous sill-band. INTERIOR: quatrefoil piers to arcade, and apse with arcading alternating stained glass windows by Kempe and painted panels over panelled dado. East window possibly by Hardman. Tower supported internally by large circular columns with carved capitals. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: South Lancashire: Harmondsworth: 1969-: 395).

Listing NGR: SJ8001398621

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Legacy System number:
471569
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969), 395

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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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