Church Of St Luke

The Church of St Luke is a parish church located in Endon and Stanley, with its tower dating from the 17th century and the remainder of the building constructed between 1876 and 1879 by Beardmore. The church is built of coursed squared and dressed sandstone, featuring slate and red and blue tile roofs, along with verge parapets and a chancel that has gabletted kneelers. The structure includes a tower, north and south aisles, a south porch, a nave, and a chancel.

The tower is a simple 17th-century design with three stages and no buttresses. It has a cavetto string course beneath a crenellated parapet, which is adorned with short crocketed pinnacles at the corners. The bell chamber has paired round-arch openings, and there are steps on the west face leading to a segmental-headed boarded door, with a single-light window above it. The south aisle consists of three bays on a plinth, featuring three- and two-light segmental-headed windows with pointed trefoil-headed lights, and a gabled porch on the west side with a double chamfered labelled pointed arch. The north aisle mirrors the south aisle with three bays of three-light windows.

The nave has eaves that are set above the aisles and a slate roof with an awkwardly low pitch. The chancel, typical of Beardmore's work, has one and a half bays with a red tile roof that has a crested ridge. It features a labelled segmental-headed four-light window similar to those in the aisles, and a three-light pointed east window topped with a cinquefoil. There is a gabled vestry on the north side.

Inside, the church has arcades of three bays supported by round columns and pointed arches, with a pointed chancel arch resting on corbelled columns below imposts. The nave has a fine Minton encaustic tile floor, and the chancel features a king post, tie beam roof, and trussed rafters. The font is octagonal, made of stone, and stands on marble legs, topped with a small oak fretted and cusped ogee spire cover. The pulpit is a three-sided bay set against the chancel, columnated and heavily carved, resting on a stone base. The east window is made by Morris & Co and dates from 1893. There are memorials for Heaton from 1824 and Evans from 1826 located to the left of the west wall, featuring tapered marble plaques on slate grounds, with a small multi-coloured glazed tile dedicated to August Selwyn, the first Bishop of New Zealand, beneath the left-hand plaque.