Church Of St Luke

The Church of St. Luke is a parish church located on Station Road in Wallsend. It was built between 1885 and 1887 by the architects Oliver, Leeson and Wood, with additional vestries added in 1895 and a tower, chancel, and lady chapel completed in 1906. The land for the church was donated by G.B. Hunter. The building is constructed from rock-faced snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings, a plinth, and quoins, topped with a Welsh slate roof featuring flat stone gable copings.

Architecturally, the church is designed in the Early English style and features a 4-bay aisled nave that includes a west porch and vestries, a north-east tower, a south transept, an apsed chancel, and a south lady chapel. The central entrance has a double door, and the west aisle is adorned with plate-traceried 3-light windows. The nave includes triple aisle lancets and stepped triple clerestory lancets, with an 8-foil window above two similar groups and five stepped east lancets. The tower is three stages high, featuring a 3-light north window in the high first stage, lancets above, and Y-traceried belfry openings, along with a corbel table and a panelled parapet, supported by shallow set-back buttresses. A bellcote is present on the nave.

Inside, the church has painted plaster with ashlar dressings and boarded kingpost roofs. The round nave arcade piers are decorated with dog-tooth moulding. There are open arches leading to the chancel, lady chapel, and tower organ chamber, with paired columns in the lady chapel. The design includes two steps leading to the chancel, two to the sanctuary, and two to the altar. Notable stained glass includes work by Baguley of Newcastle in the north aisle, a west window in the north aisle commemorating the South African War, and an east window dedicated to the First World War, created by Wilhelmina Geddes of Dublin.