Church Of St Luke

The Church of St Luke is a parish church built in 1853 by G. Pickering, following a decision in 1851 to replace an earlier chapel from 1820 designed by Bonomi. The church is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings, a plinth, and quoins, topped with a Welsh slate roof featuring stone gable copings and a stone ridge. It is designed in the Early English style and includes a nave with a north porch and a chancel with a north vestry.

The steeply-gabled porch has a boarded door with elaborate hinges set in a deep moulded surround, complete with a head-stopped dripmould. The nave consists of four bays, featuring lancet windows, with paired lancets in the second bay from the east, and plate tracery in a two-light window in both the east bay on the north side and the westernmost bay on the south side. The chancel has cusped lancets that are set back and stepped in the east elevation, with tracery in the west bay on the south side. A high gabled west bellcote is supported by a central buttress, while the nave has coped buttresses and the chancel features gabled angle buttresses. There is also a small stone turret at the junction of the vestry and chancel roofs.

Inside, the church displays painted plaster above a boarded dado. The wall-posts, which are stone-corbelled and longer between the windows, support arch-braced collars with struts to the principal rafters and short king posts. The chancel arch is double-chamfered, with the inner arch resting on nail-head-patterned shafts on head corbels. The chancel windows have rere-arches. A west gallery added in 1952 houses an organ. The stained glass includes east windows by L.C. Evetts from 1953. The altar is Gothic-style, made of carved wood with symbols of the Passion on the front panels. The font is octagonal, made of stone, featuring a single blank shield and wrought iron straps on its wooden cover. The pews have roll-moulded squared ends. A monument on the south nave wall commemorates members of the Tiplady family who died in 1789 and 1809; it is made of marble with pilasters and a fret panel below the cornice, and was transferred from the earlier chapel.