Church Of St Luke

The Church of St Luke is a Grade II* listed church, currently unused and empty, built between 1892 and 1893 by the architects Bodley and Garner. It is constructed from coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a plain tile roof with coped gables. The church has a low profile and is designed in a late Gothic style, with three-light windows in the nave and two-light windows in the chancel. The layout includes a nave, a north aisle, a chancel, and a south porch, along with a bell turret positioned over the chancel arch. The west facade features twin windows and a central buttress, while the chancel has a prominent three-light window.

Inside, the church boasts a highly unusual five-bay central nave arcade supported by clustered piers that carry high arches, which in turn support the roof collars and apex of the nave. The western end of the arcade is supported by the west wall and an exterior buttress, while the east end is anchored by the chancel arch, which is adorned with an elaborately carved angel keystone. The six-bay aisle arcade consists of squared piers with mouldings that die into them. The chancel roof is boarded, painted, and decorated. Although fittings have been removed, the interior remains particularly impressive and imaginative. It is believed that there are only three medieval examples of a central nave arcade of this type in England, and this example by Bodley is considered the most impressive of his three versions and possibly the earliest of the very few produced during the 19th and 20th centuries Gothic revival.