Church Of Saint Luke And Attached School

The Church of St Luke and an attached school were built in 1882 by J P St Aubyn. The church is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with white brick bands and stone dressings, and has a plain tile roof with white tile strips at the roof angles. It consists of a five-bay nave with lean-to side aisles extending across the west end as a porch and choir vestry, a lower two-bay chancel with a seven-sided east end, a gabled southern bell vestry treated as a transept, and a south-east vestry with a polygonal east end. A school is attached to the north side of the chancel. The church features an offset plinth, buttresses with offsets, pointed-arched board doors with decorative iron hinges in roll-moulded surrounds, and pointed-arched lancet windows, paired to the nave, with hoodmoulds to the apse. Modillion eaves cornices and decorative ridge tiles are also present. The west end of the nave has stepped tripled lancets, and the east gable has a gabled bellcote with a cross finial. The bell vestry has five small lancets below stepped tripled lancets, and the south-east vestry has a door, small paired lancets, and five more to its canted east end above which rises a polygonal roof with a cross finial. An eaves stack rises from the main chancel roof. The east side of the apse has a datestone below a white brick cross. The school is two storeys high, with a canted bay of two and three bays. The bay linking the school to the church has three lancets on each floor. The entrance bay has a door flanked by small lancets below two strings, and to the upper floor paired lancets with an oculus above and a gable with a bud finial. To the right are seven lancets, and on the first floor five are set in gables breaking the eaves and arranged 1,1,3. Inside the church, pointed-arched arcades are made of red brick on stone columns, with red brick surrounds to the openings. Brown brick is used throughout the interior. A 1914-18 war memorial is set in a recess in the nave west wall, behind the font. The roof has arch-braced trusses with three tiers of arched wind braces between two sets of purlins. The chancel includes an encaustic tile floor, sedilia, a highly decorative stone reredos, an altar rail on twisted and scroll-bracketed balusters, and good stained glass.