Church Of St Luke The Evangelist And Attached Parish Room

Church of St Luke the Evangelist and attached parish room, built 1899-1900 by James Brooks in Early English style, with the nave completed in 1909. The parish room is attached at the south-east corner.

The church is constructed in red brick in English bond with stone dressings and tiled roofs; the crossing tower is slate-hung with a spire. Herringbone brick appears in some gables. The plan consists of a nave and chancel under one continuous roof, both with north and south aisles (the nave aisles are lean-to, the chancel aisles gabled). North and south transepts with paired gables flank the crossing. Porches project to the north-west and south-west.

The west elevation features a shallow gabled porch over a richly moulded doorway with shafts having bell capitals and flanking blind arches, all decorated with nailhead detail. Above the door is a frieze of blind arcading with four lancet windows, and the gable contains a vesica window, three carved blind roundels, and timber-frame detailing. The north elevation facing Phipps Hatch Lane is the principal façade, displaying the slate crossing tower and spire rising above nave and chancel clerestory, a gabled chancel aisle to the east, double-gabled transept with herringbone brick and timber framing, a lean-to nave aisle to the west, and a projecting porch. Stepped buttressing rises from the aisles and transepts, with a continuous stringcourse on the nave that rises as hood-moulds to the clerestory windows. An octagonal slate-hung turret on the ridge sits on a square base with lucarne windows and a finial; it contains no bells and is not accessible. The north-west porch has a coped gable with kneelers and a stone tympanum over the door, pierced with round-headed lights. The transepts have long two-light windows with roundels in the heads; the aisles have paired lancets; clerestory windows are single lancets. The east elevation is plainer, with two tiers of triple lancet windows and a moulded stringcourse rising to hood-moulds, timber-frame and herringbone detail to the gable. Plate-traceried two-light windows appear at the east end of the south chancel aisle and a three-light window at the end of the north chancel aisle. A corbelled brick chimney stack rises from the south wall of the chancel. The parish room follows the same lancet style, with its east end lower than the main block. An open porch with a hipped tiled roof on timber posts occupies the corner between the two buildings, with a roofed link connecting church and room.

The interior features exposed brick with stone dressings. A moulded stone chancel arch on brick responds with stone shafts carries a triple arch above. A low stone wall divides the chancel from the nave. Five-bay nave arcades have low cylindrical piers with foliate capitals; three-bay arcades into the chancel aisles have quatrefoil-section piers. A timber wagon roof has principal rafters supported on moulded stone corbels. The south chancel aisle has a boarded roof; the north aisle has an open roof. The reredos comprises trefoil-headed stone frames with painted and gilded scenes, with similar panels to the altar. Chancel tiling becomes more elaborate towards the east end. To the south of the altar are a sedilia and aumbry with stone shafts and moulded capitals. The pulpit is timber with blind traceried side panels; nave benches have Y-shaped ends. The stone octagonal font consists of a carved bowl on an octagonal stem. Stained glass in the chancel and nave is by Lavers and Westlake. Early 20th-century stylised Stations of the Cross are also present.

A north-west tower was planned but never built. The church retains surviving original fittings throughout.