Church Of St Luke, Winterton Hospital

NZ 33 SE SEDGEFIELD SALTER'S LANE (West side, off)

2/55 Church of St. Luke, Winterton Hospital

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Hospital church. 1884 by William Crozier Junior. Light-red engineering brick in English garden wall bond with some constructional, yellow-brick polychromy; sandstone dressings; Welsh slate roof. Early English style with lancets under hoodmoulds. Aisled nave with west narthex and vestries; chancel with north vestry and south organ chamber.

6-bay nave; aisles have brick sill string and stepped-buttressed bays each with 3 stepped lancets; similar clerestory has small, paired lancets under continuous hoodmould; steeply-pitched roof has crested ridge, coped gables and squat, gabled east bellcote. West end: single-storey, 5-bay narthex has taller, gabled central bay, with pointed-arched doorway and trefoil above, flanked by buttressed bays with paired and single lancets. Nave has 3 stepped lancets with single, flanking lancets and clasping, gableted buttresses with pinnacles; aisle returns have 2-light plate-tracery windows.

Lower and narrower 2-bay chancel with gabled vestry and 2-bay organ chamber. Apsidal east end with sill string, 5 lancets under continuous hoodmould, dentilled brick eaves band and steeply-pitched roof. East return of organ chamber has paired lancets with cinquefoil above.

Interior has restrained polychromy. Nave arcades have 6 double-chamfered, pointed arches on Greek-cross-plan piers with attached corner colonettes; 6 scissor-braced trusses on corbels. 3 steps up to chancel with encaustic-tiled floor and brass gas lamps on walls. Semi-octagonal stone pulpit with pink marble colonettes.

Listing NGR: NZ3550730498