Description

SOUTHPORT

SD31NW ST LUKE'S ROAD
664-1/1/205 (East side)
Church of St Luke

II

Church. 1878-80, by Mellor and Sutton. Red brick with some
blue brick dressings, slate roofs.
STYLE: Severe Early English.
PLAN: tall nave with lean-to baptistery at west end clasped by
gabled porches, low lean-to aisles, chancel with transepts and
round apse.
EXTERIOR: 5-bay nave with pilaster strips and 2 small lancet
clerestory windows in each bay; aisles with simple buttresses
and 3 small lancets in each bay. Bellcote at junction with
chancel. At the west end the buttressed 2-window baptistery
reaches up to half the height of the west wall, and above this
a pair of pilaster strips frame 3 blind lancets, a blind
oculus and a small triple lancet in the gable above.
Large porches, at right-angles to the sides of baptistery,
with large 2-centred arched doorways in the gables and small
triple lancets in the west sides.
INTERIOR: not inspected but known to have exposed brick walls,
columns of granite with big shaft-rings and untraditional
capitals.

Listing NGR: SD3497317155

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660005

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)