Description

TORVER A593 SD 29 SE (East side) 7/192 Church of St Luke 25.3.70

GV II

Church. 1884. By Paley and Austin. Dressed slate with red sandstone dressings, slate roofs. Nave, chancel and tower between, north lean-to vestry. Coped gables. Round-headed windows have sandstone dressings. 3-bay nave has south gabled porch, entrance with shafts and arch with zig-zag and roll moulding; north side of nave has 2 windows. West end has paired windows under continuous hoodmould on sill band. Tower has deep weathered buttresses to north and south, and tall windows with weathering above; louvred bell openings and coped cornice; squat pyramidal roof and fish to weather-vane. Chancel has 3 east windows with hollow-chamfered reveals, the central one wider, and continuous hoodmould. Vestry to west bay of chancel and tower has entrance with cambered lintel. Interior: arch-braced collar trusses, one with tie beam. Tower has round double-stepped arches, the inner steps corbelled, plain coffered ceiling. North organ loft. Plain octagonal font of uncertain date on later base.

Listing NGR: SD2847994286

External Links

• St Luke's Church, Torver at Wikipedia
• St Luke's Church, Torver official website
• Wikidata Q7594057

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)