Description

SJ 67 NW WHITLEY C.P. THE VILLAGE Lower Whitley

5/119 Church of St Luke

8/1/70

GV II*

Church, a chapel rebuilt at expense of Thomas Touchet late C16 and roofed early C17; the exterior altered and much restored 1864 and later. English garden wall bond brown brickwork with stone dressings; grey slate roofs. A small church with west porch, north-west bell-turret, organ chamber, 1879, expressed as south transept, chancel and polygonal-apse sanctuary. Softwood-framed west porch on brick plinth; small, square, diminishing turret with 1 bell in stone belfry and slate spire. Mullioned windows of red sandstone have round-arched lights; pointed 3-light East window with rudimentary tracery. Interior: Outstanding hammer-beam arch-braced collar trusses, 4 in nave and 3 in chancel, have richly-carved scrolly console brackets with volutes and foliar patterns on main faces and humorously small Atlases and beasts on the lower scrolls struggling to support the overhanging brackets; good turned drop finials; lower arrises of hammer-beams, principal rafters and purlins have recesses carved with corbel-blocks; split quatrefoil windbraces in chancel. roof. Common rafters and roof-boarding replaced. Pointed stone chancel-arch contemporary with roof. Sanctuary and oak screen look mid-Victorian; organ 1879; late C19 glass in memory of Frances Belcrow.

Listing NGR: SJ6143678869

External Links

• St Luke's Church, Lower Whitley at Wikipedia
• St Luke's Church, Lower Whitley official website
• Wikidata Q7594050

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