Hospital Church Of St Luke At City Hospital

The Hospital Church of St Luke, located at the City Hospital in Nottingham, was built as a chapel in 1902 and subsequently altered in 1975. It is now used as a store. The building is constructed primarily of red brick with a Bulwell stone plinth, and has slate and plain tile roofs. Areas of irregular Bulwell stone texturing are present on the tower and main gables. The design follows a cruciform plan, incorporating a chancel with a porch and organ chamber, transepts, porches, a nave with aisles, and a west porch, alongside a south-west tower.

The exterior features a stone plinth, buttresses, and gables. The windows are distinguished by stone surrounds and mullions. The east end has a round-arched window with seven lights and reticulated tracery, flanked by flat-headed, three-light mullioned windows and lean-to porches on either side. The transepts have similar gable windows and segment-headed windows. The nave, with five bays, has five flat-headed, three-light mullioned windows on each side, topped by an ashlar box dormer with a lead roof and four mullioned windows. The west end showcases a semicircular window with nine lights and reticulated tracery, beneath a full-width west porch with a flat lead roof and rounded steps leading to a pair of doorways. A round tower with a crenellated parapet, a set-back copper-clad needle spire, and a finial rises from the building. The bell stage features mullioned, louvred openings around the circumference.

Inside, the brickwork is largely original, with a plasterboard and stud partition dividing the nave west of the crossing. The nave and chancel have round-arched, boarded roofs supported by king posts and arch braces to cross beams. The chancel features a molded round-headed brick arch, a similar arch on the north side with a panelled screen, and a segment-arched recess on the south side. The organ chamber has a segment-arched window to the east. The transepts have round arches and principal rafter roofs. The north transept provides access to the organ chamber. The nave is characterized by round-arched arcades on square piers with glazed brick plinths. At the west end are two segment-arched recesses and flanking round-arched doorways. The aisles have segment-arched doorways to the east and round-arched doors to the west, with lean-to roofs. Original fittings include a Baroque-style wooden pulpit and steps, a baluster lectern, an altar rail with turned balusters, and panelled benches.