Church of St Luke

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NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME Silverdale CHURCH STREET (north side) Church of St Luke

26/01/90

II Parish Church. 1853. By R. Armstrong. Coursed and squared rubble with plain tiled roof with scalloped bands. Decorated style. South east tower and spire, nave and two aisles, chancel. Buttressed tower of three stages with paired lights in lower stage, clock above, and paired bell-chamber lights. Corbel table, octagonal brooch spire. Polygonal stair-turret in north east angle. South aisle porch, buttressed and with coped gable over simple chamfered archway. Buttresses divide aisle walls into bays, with two-light Decorated windows. West door in ogee arch with heavy mouldings, and three-light window over. East window to chancel of four-lights.

INTERIOR: five-bay Early English style arcades with alternate cylindrical and octagonal shafts. Raking trusses carry collars with queen struts to wind-braced roof. Simple moulded chancel arch. Encaustic tiles, possibly by Minton to chancel, which contains Stanier memorial, a large wall tablet erected in 1856 with bust beneath wide ogee arch flanked by pinnacles, the whole enriched with niches, crockets and foliate decoration. Stained glass: badly corroded representation of Life of Christ in east window, undated. Figures of Saints in north and south aisles, 1892 and 1897. Original oak pews. Chancel screen with three traceried arches and cross over, erected as war memorial.

Listing NGR: SJ8177646709

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.