Church of St Luke is a Grade II* listed building in the Rushcliffe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1965. A Early Modern Church.
Church of St Luke
- WRENN ID
- watchful-entrance-hyssop
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Rushcliffe
- Constituency
- Rushcliffe MP: James Naish (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1965
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Church of St Luke, Main Street, Kinoulton
- OS grid reference
- SK 676 307
- Coordinates
- 52.86974, -0.99644
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Luke is a Grade II* listed church built in 1793 for Henry, Earl of Gainsborough. It features red brick construction with an ashlar plinth, bands, and dressings, topped with a slate roof that has a coped gable. The church has a three-bay nave, a three-stage west tower, an apsidal chancel, and a vestry located to the north-east. It is designed in a classical style, with archivolted round-arched nave windows that have raised sills, keystones, and leaded lights. The chancel is lower than the nave, and the side windows are blind. The west entrance has a double, six-panel door with a fanlight, set in a raised brick surround that includes imposts, a keystone, and a small cornice. Above this is a round-arch west window with an impost band that continues around the tower, becoming an eaves band for the nave. The tower features louvred round-arched openings for the bell chamber, and there is a moulded eaves cornice and a weathervane.
Inside, the church has an entrance lobby with a stick-baluster staircase that leads to a balcony. The balcony has a dark stained front made up of four fielded panels on a dentilled cornice, supported by two square panelled piers. The ceiling cornice is bracketed, and the roof is simply panelled. The east end of the church features a dado of fielded panels arranged in two tiers, topped with a small dentilled cornice.
Local climate
Church of St Luke sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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