Church of St. Luke is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1966. Church.
Church of St. Luke
- WRENN ID
- small-gutter-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Leigh and Atherton MP: Jo Platt (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 1966
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St. Luke, Slag Lane
- OS grid reference
- SJ 615 977
- Coordinates
- 53.47539, -2.58046
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Luke is a Grade II listed building located on Slag Lane in Golborne. The church was built in 1732, with transepts added in 1771, alterations made in 1813, a chancel probably constructed in 1856, and a tower completed in 1862. It is made of Flemish bond brick and has a slate roof. The church features a three-bay nave with rusticated quoins and round-headed windows that have keystones, impost blocks, Y-tracery, and raised brick panels below the sills. The one-bay transepts have similar windows, with the south transept featuring two lunette windows. The chancel has elementary Venetian windows on each side and a 20th-century vestry added to the north.
The west tower, which replaces the original cupola, conceals the original pedimented door surround dated 1732. The tower has four stages, castellations, diagonal buttresses, and Romanesque detailing on the round-arched door and window openings. The clock face on the tower is dated 1862.
Inside, two of the three original galleries have been removed, along with the box pews and 18th-century font. The remaining gallery is panelled, features dentilled enrichment, and supports the organ loft. Most fittings are from the 20th century, and there is stained glass present. An original studded oak door remains, while the roof structure was replaced in the 19th century. The chancel arch has Romanesque enrichment.
Local climate
Church of St. Luke 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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