Church Of St Luke

The Church of St Luke is a parish church dating from 1796. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and a slate roof. The church comprises a three-bay nave and a small, apsidal sanctuary. A square, west tower is divided into three vertical sections by narrow stone bands. The lowest section of the tower features two small, semi-circular headed windows on its west face; the lower window is stone-dressed with lead lattice glazing, while the upper window is a brick opening with a stone sill and square leaded glazing. A weathered stone tablet sits above the first band, beneath a moulded cornice, surmounted by a clock within a projecting circular stone frame. The other tower faces at this level have glazed, circular openings with wooden crossed mullions. The bell stage has stone-dressed, semi-circular headed openings with springers, keys, and louvre infilling. The tower is topped by a parapet band and a low brick parapet with a stone cornice and pyramid corner pinnacles.

The nave walls have a weathered stone plinth and large, semi-circular headed, stone-dressed windows with stained glass or leaded glazing. The south nave door opening is rusticated, with a semi-circular head filled with oak bead and flush radial panelling, above a pair of six-panel bead and flush doors. The east end features a canted chancel-apse with a stone-dressed, semi-circular headed stained glass window and a flat roof. A 20th-century vestry with a hipped slate roof has been added to the north-west end of the church.

Inside, the apse is semi-circular, with a hemispherical ceiling springing from a deep wooden cornice, itself supported by reeded Corinthian capped pilasters flanking the east window and the opening. The apse is flanked by a three-panel high dado surmounted by a semi-circular headed blind arcade with four panels separated by slender Corinthian capped shafts. Carved panel frieze and console-supported cornice complete the wall dressing. The sanctuary has a white marble and mosaic floor, with an astragal moulded communion rail set on six turned shafts. Panelling in the choir extends up to the springing line of the window arch. The pulpit is stone-based with a polygonal oak form, featuring semi-circular headed sunk panels and reeded Corinthian columns at the angles. A highly carved lectern has a cross roof base and coupled shaft supports. Five 18th or 19th-century marble/stone wall memorials are located in the choir and nave. A panelled organ gallery spans the west end of the church, supported on two slender, moulded cast iron columns. The ceiling is flat, with a simple moulded cornice.