Church of St Luke is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Church of St Luke
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1988
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Luke, Bramham Road, Clifford, LS23 6JQ
- OS grid reference
- SE 425 441
- Coordinates
- 53.89159, -1.35337
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Luke is a church built between 1841 and 1842 by Atkinson, designed in the Gothic Revival style. It is constructed from ashlar magnesian limestone and features a graduated slate roof. The church has a cruciform plan with a west tower.
The tower consists of two stages. The lower stage is tall and has a chamfered plinth with a west doorway that is topped by a shouldered lintel. It is supported by clasping buttresses that have moulded offsets, hollow arrises, and offset tops. The tall double-chamfered west window is located beneath a shorter lancet window, both of which have a hoodmould. The tower also features cusped circular windows and a string course beneath the belfry stage, which has shafted arrises. The belfry openings are 2-light and louvred, with continuous hoodmoulds, shafts, and spandrel trefoils. Below the corbel table, there are blind quatrefoils leading to a plain parapet with corner dies.
On the south side of the nave, there is a chamfered plinth and a clasping west buttress to the left of two double-chamfered windows. The nave has a chamfered eaves band and shaped kneelers on the left, along with ashlar gable copings. The north doorway, which has a hoodmould, is located west of a single lancet window. The transepts each have matching gables with two windows under hoodmoulds that feature carved stops, flanked by buttresses with offsets and gablets. A hooded circular window is located beneath a vesica, along with shaped kneelers and copings.
The chancel has a moulded sill for the east window, which consists of three stepped lights with shafts and a hoodmould adorned with nailhead ornament. There is also a sill for a gable trefoil, shaped kneelers, and gable copings with an apex cross. Flat-roofed vestries are situated in the angles with the transepts and chancel, featuring side doorways and 2-light east windows under shouldered heads.
Inside, the church has a quadripartite vault at the crossing supported by corbelled, arch-braced trusses. An octagonal stone font is present, along with an Eamonson Charity board from 1852 located under the tower.
Local climate
Church of St Luke receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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