Church of St Luke is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1983. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Luke
- WRENN ID
- tall-spandrel-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby MP: Sarah Pochin (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1983
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Luke, Chester Road, Dunham-On-The-Hill and Hapsford
- OS grid reference
- SJ 472 730
- Coordinates
- 53.25206, -2.79242
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Luke is a church built between 1860 and 1861 by James Harrison, designed in an early 14th-century style. It is constructed of sandstone and features a slate roof. The building includes a nave and chancel with a bellcote at the west end, a south porch, and vestries on both the north and south sides. The nave has three aisleless windows with pointed heads and reticulated tracery, alongside two-light windows with plain leaded lights. The west window has four lights, and the east window has three lights, both containing stained glass. The outer porch doorway features a hood mould with returned stops, and there are three niches within the porch—one on the left and two on the right—each with pointed heads. The church has a chamfered plinth, angle buttresses, a stone gable parapet, and stone crosses at the east end of the nave and chancel.
Inside, there is a timber screen with linenfold panelling and pine pews. The octagonal stone font, inscribed and dated 1863, has an octagonal pedestal and base. The pulpit is also octagonal and made of timber. Behind the altar, there is a panelled screen, and a cross designed by G.G. Scott and made by Skidmore of Coventry is displayed in high Victorian style with heavy relief. An elaborate gilt cross, originally from above the choir screen at Chester Cathedral, was added in 1921.
Local climate
Church of St Luke receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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