Church of St Luke
CHURCH OF ST LUKE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391209
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391209
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Colchester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tiptree
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 89611 16076
Details
TIPTREE
986/0/10050 CHURCH OF ST LUKE
11-SEP-03
II
Church. Consecrated 1856 with minor later alterations, and 1975 extension not included in the listing. Ewan Christian [1814-1895]. Red brick with blue brick banding. Red tile roof with blue tile banding. Caen stone dressings. English Decorated Style.
PLAN: Wide nave of 5 bays, with wide aisles to both sides. Nave terminates in 5-sided apsidal end, south aisle in the chapel.
EXTERIORS: WEST end with wide gable sloping to include side aisles. Central window with reticulated tracery comprising 5 trefoil headed lights and multiple quatrefoils under pointed arch, flanked by pair of buttresses with stone copings and single trefoil headed lights to each aisle. Wooden belfry with pitched roof. NORTH elevation with deep sloping roof to western most bays, 3 rectangular cross-like windows with pair of trefoil headed lancets below trefoils. East of centre, tall gable with central window of 3 pointed trefoil headed lights and quatrefoils within ogivals under pointed arch. To eastern end, advanced single storey vestry to end bay with 2 trefoil headed lights and quatrefoil in flush stone surrounds, tall chimney stack to centre. EAST end with 5-sided apse under segmental roof, each bay with an attenuated window with rounded trefoil headed light and quatrefoil. SOUTH elevation with deep sloping roof to west end and tall gable with central window, similar to North elevation, but shorter and with catslide roof to east incorporating door with ogee head and window with 2 trefoil headed lights and quatrefoil. Original entrance to west end of this elevation with original porch removed and now incorporated into large 1970s extension from south west corner
INTERIOR: Ceiling with wood ribs and 3 king post trusses. Chevron brick detailing below nave ceiling. Red and yellow banded brick arches and piers with stone capitals to nave arcade. West windows destroyed in 1942 bomb blast and replaced in 1951 by design of A.K. Nicholson. South aisle single lancet of Our Lady holding Baby Jesus, 1908. To West end, 5 stone panels with the Ten Commandments, the Lords Prayer and the Apostles Creed. Stone font. Pulpit by Ernest Geldhart, 1906. Oak Choir stalls of 1934 by Bryan Saunders of Coggeshall. East end window of 5 lights depicting life of Christ with brick and stone pointed arch headers. Brown and black tile floor. Original wooden pews.
SOURCES: Chelmsford Chronicle. 24 October 1856.
A relatively unaltered Church of 1856 by Ewan Christian with contemporary fittings and later insertions of good quality, and a harmonious use of polychromy to the brickwork, tiles roof and nave arcade.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 493415
- 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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