Church of St Luke is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1984. Church.
Church of St Luke
- WRENN ID
- final-hinge-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Spen Valley MP: Kim Leadbeater (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Luke, Moorside
- OS grid reference
- SE 179 251
- Coordinates
- 53.72243, -1.72952
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Luke is a Gothic Revival church built in 1887, constructed from hammer-dressed stone and featuring a pitched slate roof with gable copings. It has a south-west tower with an entrance on the south side, a 6-bay nave with lean-to buttressed aisles and a clerestory, and a 2-bay chancel with an attached vestry. The west end of the nave has a two-sided apse. The aisle windows consist of 2 and 3 lights with simple tracery, while the clerestory windows are arranged in triple groups with cusped heads. The large 5-light east window showcases stained glass with a traceried head and hood mould. The tower is three tiers high with angle buttresses, a clock face on the second tier, paired louvred openings for the bell chamber, and a hexagonal stone broach spire with louvred lucarnes.
Inside, the church has a spacious interior with a 4-bay arcade on each side, featuring alternative round and octagonal piers. The angled apse to the west contains a carved stone font supported by granite colonnettes and topped with a carved oak cover. There is a Lady chapel to the north with a parclose screen, and a carved stone reredos that includes carved figures and niches, with a centerpiece depicting the Last Supper.
Local climate
Church of St Luke receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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