Church Of St Luke

WESTON-UNDER- WESTON SJ 5628-5728 REDCASTLE C.P. 17/189 Church of St. Luke - GV II Shown on O.S. map as Chapel of St. Luke. Chapel of ease, now parish church. 1791 on medieval site; chancel, vestry and restoration 1879. Red sandstone ashlar, rock-faced to chancel and vestry; machine tile roofs with coped verges and ornamental cresting. Nave; chancel; west tower; south porch and vestry. Tower: in 2 stages with C18 corner pilasters, moulded string course, cornice and parapet with late C19 crocketed corner finials. Pointed window with simple C19 plate tracery to first stage on west; similar blind openings on north and south; late C19 sexfoil window below string course on west. Belfry also has windows with C19 plate tracery on each side. Nave: north side unbuttressed in 4 bays with paired broad lancets similar to those in tower. South side has 2 windows with plate tracery to centre, small late C19 Early English style doorway and trefoil-headed lancet to right. Late C19 gabled timber porch to left over contemporary pointed doorway. Chancel: east window has 3 broad cusped lancets with 2 quatrefoils and one sexfoil above; cusped lancet with cusped trefoil above on north. Gabled south vestry has 2 lancets on south side. Interior: very plain with late C19 arch-braced collar beam roof in 4 bays to nave with cusped struts forming octofoils. Late C19 pointed chancel arch on corbelled responds and trussed rafter roof to chancel. Fittings and furnishings including stained glass, numbered pews and octagonal late Perpendicular-style font all late C19. Monument: wall memorial to George Downward (died 1809), nave west wall: urn on inwardly sloping chest tomb. 2 boards in tower commemorate rebuilding of church in 1791 and 1879 restoration. Originally a dependent chapelry of Hodnet, much of the 1791 rebuilding was paid for by Sir Richard Hill, second baronet of Hawkstone. B.O.E. p.312; D. H. S. Cranage, The Churches of Shropshire, Part 8 (1906) p.734.

Listing NGR: SJ5650228801