Church Of St Luke

The Church of St. Luke is a church that dates from the 12th to the 15th centuries, with significant rebuilding and a new chancel added between 1870 and 1873 by architects Slater and Carpenter. The church is constructed from granite rubble stone, with coursed squared ironstone and an ashlar limestone tower. It features parapetted leaded roofs, stone coped gables, and finials, along with buttresses and angle buttresses that have set-offs.

The structure includes a central tower, nave, aisles, chancel, and south porch. The tower consists of three stages from the 12th, late 13th, and mid-14th centuries, featuring four circular piers with scalloped capitals, two-light windows on the north and south sides, a clock face, one-light windows to the east and west, and in the upper stage, four two-light bell openings. The tower is supported by diagonal buttresses and has a frieze with gargoyles, battlements, and crocketted pinnacles. A 19th-century northeast stair turret is also present.

The nave has a west window with geometric tracery, three bay arcades with double chamfered arches on octagonal piers, and three two-light clerestory windows on either side, likely from the mid-14th century. The 19th-century nave features a low-pitch tie beam roof. The north aisle, added in the 19th century, includes a north door and five windows with intersected tracery and dagger motifs.

The chancel, also from the 19th century, includes sedilia on either side with black marble shafts, two piscinas, and an east window featuring stained glass from 1913. The chancel has a boarded wagon roof supported by carved wooden angels on stone corbels and a tile floor, likely from Minton.

The south aisle contains four windows with intersected tracery and stained glass from 1929, 1885, 1887, and 1933, as well as a piscina and double sedilia. The south doorway features an arch with a double hollow chamfer, and the 19th-century south porch has part of its doorway arch decorated with a zig-zag pattern. A tub-shaped font on an eight-shafted foot, probably from the late 13th century, is also present, along with a painting of the Ascension, likely a Venetian work from around 1600 or a copy.