Description

TF 15 SE NORTH KYME CHURCH LANE

5/19 Church of St Luke

_ II

Parish church. 1877, designed by Drury and Mortimer. Red brick with ashlar
dressings. Welsh slate roof, tumbled gables and chamfered brick plinth. Wave,
chancel and south porch. West front has a single, central buttress, flanked by
pointed arch windows with recessed ashlar surrounds and tracery both 2 lights with
a quatrefoil. The gable is topped by an octagonal wooden louvred bellcote with
small octagonal spire, the whole supported by the central buttress. The north
nave wall has 4 tall pointed arch lancets, and the chancel has 2 smaller lancets
with recessed ashlar surrounds and tracery. The chancel east wall has a large
pointed arch window, with recessed ashlar surround and tracery, 3 lights topped by
2 quatrefoils and a large central trefoil. The south chancel wall has 2 small
lancets with recessed ashlar surrounds and tracery, the nave has 3 tall lancets,
and beyond a projecting gabled porch, with pointed archway with double chamfered
surround and ashlar impost blocks. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: TF1531952705

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26570126

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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