Church Of St Luke

The Church of St Luke was built between 1860 and 1861 by G.T. Robinson of Leamington. It is constructed of red brick with buff brick, blue brick and ashlar dressings, with slate roofs. The church includes an apsed chancel with a north chapel and vestry, an aisled nave with a narthex, and a south-west steeple. It is executed in a roguish Gothic Revival style.

The chancel features brick and ashlar banding, gabled buttresses, and pointed windows with decorative brick hoods and ashlar lintel bands and coped gables. The organ loft is gabled, containing a stepped triplet of lancet windows on slender iron colonnettes and set against angle buttresses; the chapel is similar, with a gabled vestry to the east, a two-light window, and a spherical diamond window. The nave has coped gables with crosses and three gabled spherical triangle clerestory windows on each side. The six-bay aisles include cornices and paired lancet windows set against stone colonnettes between buttresses. The west lean-to narthex has arcading on iron columns paired in depth; it includes a gabled entrance with iron shafts and a relief of the Journey to Emmaus in the tympanum. Two west windows have two lights each, with a roundel above, and a flying buttress to the left.

The four-stage tower has brick and ashlar banding, angle buttresses, and a round south-east turret with a conical roof. The south entrance is gabled with iron columns and a relief of St Luke over the trumeau. It contains paired lancets to the west and to the second stage. The third stage has triple bell openings over a corbelled frieze and cornice, with a weathered base to the octagonal top stage. The top stage has lancets with inserted clock faces and a top frieze and a slate spire with narrow lucarnes.

The interior features a panelled chancel with a scissor-truss roof. The three-bay arcades are on iron columns with rich traceried parclose screens, now glazed. The nave displays six-bay arcades on iron columns paired longitudinally, with trumpet capitals and polychrome arches. It includes a deep arch-braced scissor truss roof. A tripartite chancel arch leads to the chancel, with paired arches to the chapel and organ loft, and braced ties to the aisle roofs supported by carved corbels. The altar has rich arcading, and the reredos depicts the Last Supper in high relief. Well-crafted stalls and a pulpit on three shafts with niches containing depictions of the evangelists are also present, along with a war memorial reredos within the chapel. The church contains an octagonal font on one large and four small shafts, together with good 19th-century glass in the chancel, and further glass dated 1913 in the chapel.

The church is a notable design, characterized by its polychromatic materials and extensive use of cast iron, with remarkable roguish detailing.