Description

THURNBY

SK 60 SW MAIN STREET (North Side)
4/111
29.12.66 Church of St. Luke

GV II*

Church. C12 - C15, much rebuilt in and new chancel of 1870-3. Rebuilding
by Slater and Carpenter. Granite rubble stone. Coursed squared ironstone
and ashlar limestone tower. Parapetted leaded roofs with stone coped gables
and finials. Buttresses and angle buttresses with set-offs. Central tower,
nave, aisles, chancel and S porch. Tower of 3 stages of C12, late C13 and
mid C14 with 4 circular piers with many scalloped capitals, 2-lights above
to N and S, clock face, 1-lights to E and W, and in upper stage of ashlar,
4 2-light bell openings, diagonal buttresses, frieze with gargoyles, battlements
and crocketted pinnacles. C19 NE stair turret. Nave has W window with Geometric
tracery, 3 bay arcades with double chamfered arches on octagonal piers, 3
2-light clerestory windows either side, probably mid C14, and C19 3 bay low-pitch
tie beam roof. C19 N aisle with N door and 5 windows. Intersected tracery
with daggers. C19 chancel : the sedilia either side with black marble shafts,
2 piscinas, and E window with stained glass of 1913. Boarded wagon roof supported
by carved wooden angels on stone corbels. Tile (probably Minton) floor.
S aisle has 4 windows : Intersected tracery with daggers, and stained glass
of 1929, 1885, 1887 and 1933. Piscina and double sedilia. S doorway, the
arch with double hollow chamfer. C19 S porch, with part of doorway arch decorated
with zig-zag built into it. Tub-shaped font on eight-shafted foot, probably
late C13. Painting of Ascension, probably Venetian c1600, or copy. Thurnby
Parish Church guide, 1974, and Pevsner.

Listing NGR: SK6470503931

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17540188

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  For the Record
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover