Description

The following building shall be added:

TQ 38 SE CANNING TOWN JUDE STREET
(north-west side)
251-/3/10002 CHURCH OF ST LUKE

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Church. 1873-5 by Giles and Gane for Henry Boyd, vicar of neighbouring St Marks from
which the new parish was detached. Yellow stock brick with red rubbed window arches and
bands, stone dressings, slate roof. The church is orientated northwards, the direction of the
liturgical eastern apse. Two-bay transepts either side of chancel, five-bay nave (two steps lower)
with arcades and narrow lean-to aisles. Double door in stone porch under 2-light window with
decorated plate tracery at west end. Paired lancets to nave linked by bands; 2-light plate tracery
to transepts; in the apse an arcade of lancets under stone hoods with banding and floreated
roundels, alternately pierced. Between the transepts on line of chancel is a single stone buttress,
above which rises an octagonal timber fleche.
The interior has two five-bay arcades with roll mouldings and hoods, stylised floral capitals.
Elaborate timber roof with turned tie-beams, king posts, collars and bracing. Chancel denoted
by paired truss on stone columns on pointed stops reminiscent of the style of William
Butterfield. Open ironwork screen to south transept; the north divided from the first to
include vestries and organ chamber. The pulpit, lectern, litany desk and communion rails of
wrought iron date from the 1890s. The chancel apse is entirely panelled with stone arcading in
three tiers, filled c.1893 with mosaics, the tall middle range depicting the twelve apostles with
at their centre a reredos showing the Ascension. The three east lancets depict St Luke, Christ
and St Cedd, c.1950.
Source. Council for the Care of Churches, report December 1980.

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In the entry for:

TQ 38 SE CANNING TOWN JUDE STREET
(north-west side)
251-/3/10002 St Luke's Church

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the description shall be amended to read as follows:

Church. 1873-5 by Giles and Gane for Henry Boyd, vicar of neighbouring St Mark's from which
the new parish was detached. Yellow stock brick with red rubbed window arches and bands, stone
dressings, slate roof. The church is oriented northwards, the direction of the liturgical eastern apse.
Two-bay transepts either side of chancel, five-bay nave (two steps lower) with arcades and narrow
lean-to aisles. Double door in stone porch under 2-light window with decorated plate tracery at
west end. Paired lancets to nave linked by bands; 2-light plate tracery to transepts; in the apse an
arcade of lancets under stone hoods with banding and floreated roundels, alternately pierced.
Between the transepts on line of chancel is a single stone buttress, above which rises an octagonal
timber fleche.
The interior has two five-bay arcades with roll mouldings and hoods, stylised floral capitals.
Elaborate timber roof with turned tie-beams, king posts, collars and bracing. Chancel denoted by
paired truss on stone columns on pointed stops reminiscent of the style of William Butterfield.
Many original fittings removed, but there survives open ironwork screen to south transept; the
north aisle divided from the first to include vestries and organ chamber. Communion rails of
wrought iron date from the 1890s. The chancel apse is entirely panelled with stone arcading in
three tiers, filled c.1893 with mosaics, the tall middle range depicting the twelve apostles with at
their centre a reredos showing the Ascension. The three east lancets depict St Luke, Christ and St
Cedd, c.1950.

Listing NGR: TQ3982881146

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Luke at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26544879

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