Church Of St Luke

The Church of St. Luke is a church that dates back to the 13th century and was rebuilt in 1880 by Edwin Dolby of Abingdon. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a gabled roof covered in 19th-century tiles. The church consists of a nave with a north aisle and a chancel that includes a north chapel, organized in four bays. The roof of the east gable wall was raised to a higher pitch during the 1880 restoration.

The chancel has a 13th-century double-lancet window, while the north chapel features a late 19th-century trefoil-headed window. The north wall contains three late 19th-century three-light windows, with a buttress to the east and a pointed chamfered doorway to the west. The south wall includes a restored 16th-century three-light mullioned window, a 15th-century two-light ogee-headed window, and two similar windows added in 1880. There is a gabled timber porch from 1880, along with a 13th-century pointed roll-moulded doorway leading to a partly ancient door that was restored in 1880. The west gable wall has a buttress and a 13th-century lancet window, topped by a timber belfry with a hipped old tile roof.

Inside, the church features a reredos with a crucifixion scene and a candelabra hanging from the crenellated tie beam of the late 19th-century two-bay roof, which has moulded beams. The floor is laid with late 19th-century tiles, and there are benches, an altar rail, and a piscina from the same period. An arch leads to the north chapel, and the chancel screen is adorned with sixteen 15th-century open-traceried panels along the cornice. In the nave, there are late 19th-century benches, a pulpit, and a lectern, along with a wrought-iron hour-glass holder. The nave also features a late 19th-century arch-braced roof and a four-bay north arcade with coloured shafts on the columns, as well as a fine octagonal pulpit with foliate panels and pink marble shafts. The north aisle is decorated with a fine candelabra, and a painting of the church before the 1880 restoration is displayed next to the south door in the nave.