Church Of St Luke

The Church of St. Luke, located in Weston-under-Weston, is a Grade II listed building that serves as a parish church and was originally designated as a chapel of ease. It was established in 1791 on a medieval site and underwent restoration in 1879. The church is constructed from red sandstone ashlar, with a rock-faced finish on the chancel and vestry, and features machine tile roofs with coped verges and ornamental cresting.

The church comprises a nave, chancel, west tower, south porch, and vestry. The tower is designed in two stages and includes 18th-century corner pilasters, a moulded string course, a cornice, and a parapet adorned with late 19th-century crocketed corner finials. The first stage of the tower has a pointed window with simple 19th-century plate tracery on the west side, along with similar blind openings on the north and south. The belfry features windows with 19th-century plate tracery on each side.

The nave's north side is unbuttressed and consists of four bays with paired broad lancets similar to those found in the tower. The south side includes two windows with plate tracery in the center, a small late 19th-century Early English style doorway, and a trefoil-headed lancet to the right. A late 19th-century gabled timber porch is positioned to the left, leading to a contemporary pointed doorway.

The chancel features an east window with three broad cusped lancets, two quatrefoils, and one sexfoil above, along with a cusped lancet and a cusped trefoil above on the north side. The gabled south vestry has two lancets on its south side.

Inside, the church is quite plain, featuring a late 19th-century arch-braced collar beam roof in four bays in the nave, with cusped struts that form octofoils. The chancel has a late 19th-century pointed arch on corbelled responds and a trussed rafter roof. The fittings and furnishings, including stained glass, numbered pews, and an octagonal late Perpendicular-style font, are all from the late 19th century.

A notable monument within the church is a wall memorial to George Downward, who died in 1809, located on the west wall of the nave, featuring an urn on an inwardly sloping chest tomb. Additionally, two boards in the tower commemorate the rebuilding of the church in 1791 and the restoration in 1879. Originally, the church was a dependent chapelry of Hodnet, and much of the funding for the 1791 rebuilding was provided by Sir Richard Hill, the second baronet of Hawkstone.