Church of St Luke the Physician is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1982. Church.

Church of St Luke the Physician

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Manchester
Constituency
Wythenshawe and Sale East MP: Mike Kane (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 March 1982
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Luke the Physician, Brownley Road
OS grid reference
SJ 831 881
Coordinates
53.38949, -2.25553
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Luke the Physician is a church built between 1938 and 1939 by the architects Taylor and Young. It is constructed of light brown brick in an English garden wall bond, with the roof concealed. The church features a modern functionalist style, consisting of a nave with a west tower, north and south aisles that include porches and side offices, and a short chancel.

The rectangular tower is the same width as the nave and is flanked by short triangular buttresses on either side of a square-headed doorway. The tower's plain walls are highlighted by a very large geometrical-floral clock, a parapet, and a low set-back louvre stage topped with a steeply-pitched hipped roof. The flat-roofed aisles have projected triangular ends that flank the tower, with porches at each end of the north aisle and corresponding offices on the south aisle. There are very small star-shaped windows with pentagonal surrounds.

The nave is adorned with seven pairs of tall square-headed lancet windows. The short one-bay chancel features a concrete cross in place of an east window. Inside, the church has a basilican character, with low passage-aisles, chamfered piers that terminate with lights, and a flat concrete-beamed ceiling. The chancel is side-lit and includes relief figures of angels.

Local climate

Church of St Luke the Physician sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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