Description

CROSBY

SJ39NW LIVERPOOL ROAD
778-1/3/56 (East side)
Church of St Luke

II

Church. 1853-4, by A & G Holme (Pevsner); recently severely
damaged by fire and substantially re-built at rear and
internally in C20 style. Coursed sandstone rubble with
freestone dressings, metal sheet roof.
STYLE: Simple Decorated.
PLAN: wide aisleless nave with north and south transepts,
chancel, and west steeple.
EXTERIOR: the tower, of 3 equal stages successively set back,
with full-height diagonal buttresses, has a large 2-centred
arched west doorway moulded in 3 orders, with a hoodmould, a
1-stage semi-circular vice in the left angle, with staggered
cusped spherical-triangle windows, a 2-centred 3-light window
to the 2nd stage, with tracery, a clockface in the lower part
of the 3rd stage breaking into a 2-light louvred belfry window
on this side, similar belfry windows in the other sides, and a
broach spire swept at the foot. The 4-bay nave, with
buttresses, has a large gabled porch to the 2nd bay of the
south side, with a doorway like that in the tower, and
2-centred arched 2-light windows in the other bays, with
tracery. Full-height 2-bay transepts in similar style, with
larger windows in the gable walls. C20 metal-clad turret at
crossing; C20 apse and similar additions to chancel.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ3215899855

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Luke's Church, Great Crosby at Wikipedia
• St Luke's Church, Great Crosby official website
• Wikidata Q18640321

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Recommended Books

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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]