Church Of St Luke

SOUTHPORT

SD31NW ST LUKE'S ROAD 664-1/1/205 (East side) Church of St Luke

II

Church. 1878-80, by Mellor and Sutton. Red brick with some blue brick dressings, slate roofs. STYLE: Severe Early English. PLAN: tall nave with lean-to baptistery at west end clasped by gabled porches, low lean-to aisles, chancel with transepts and round apse. EXTERIOR: 5-bay nave with pilaster strips and 2 small lancet clerestory windows in each bay; aisles with simple buttresses and 3 small lancets in each bay. Bellcote at junction with chancel. At the west end the buttressed 2-window baptistery reaches up to half the height of the west wall, and above this a pair of pilaster strips frame 3 blind lancets, a blind oculus and a small triple lancet in the gable above. Large porches, at right-angles to the sides of baptistery, with large 2-centred arched doorways in the gables and small triple lancets in the west sides. INTERIOR: not inspected but known to have exposed brick walls, columns of granite with big shaft-rings and untraditional capitals.

Listing NGR: SD3497317155