Description

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READING ERLEIGH ROAD
SU 7272 (north side)
9/600
Church of St Luke and
attached school
GV
II
Church and attached school. 1882 by J P St Aubyn. Red brick in Flemish bond with
white brick bands and stone dressings. Plain tile roof with strips of white tiles
at angles. 5-bay nave with lean-to side aisles continuing across west end as
porch and choir vestry; lower 2-bay chancel with 7-sided east end, gabled southern
bell vestry (treated as transept) and south-east vestry with polygonal east end.
School attached to north side of chancel. Offset plinth, buttresses with off-
sets. Pointed-arched board doors with decorative iron hinges in roll-moulded
surrounds. Lancet windows, paired to nave, with hoodmoulds to apse. Modillion
eaves cornices. Decorative ridge tiles. Nave: west end has stepped tripled
lancets; roll-moulded ashlar coping, east gable having gabled bellcote with cross
finial. Chancel: bell vestry has 5 small lancets below stepped tripled lancets.
South-east vestry has door, small paired lancets, and 5 more to canted east end
above which rises ploygonal roof with cross finial. Eaves stack to main chancel
roof. East side of apse has datestone below white brick cross, school: 2
storeys; 2 + 3 bays, on cant. Bay 1, linking school to church, has 3 lancets on
each floor. Bay 2 is entrance bay, having door flanked by small lancets below 2
strings, and to upper floor paired lancets with oculus over and gable with bud
finial. To right are 7 lancets, and on 1st floor 5 set in gables breaking eaves
and arranged 1,1,3. Interior of church: pointed-arched arcades of red brick on
stone columns; red brick surrounds to openings, otherwise brown brick throughout.
1914-18 war memorial in recess in nave west wall, behind font. Arch-braced roof
trusses with 3 tiers of arched wind braces between 2 sets of purlins. In chancel:
encaustic tile roof; sedilia; highly decorative stone reredos; altar rail on
twisted and scroll-bracketed balusters; and good stained glass.

Listing NGR: SU7297872842

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26407489

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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