Church Of St Luke

The Church of St Luke is a church of 1859, designed by Henry Woodyer, with a porch added in 1961. It is constructed of rough-dressed coursed Bargate stone with an ashlar plinth and dressings, and has a plain tiled roof, with an ashlar bellcote beneath a wood-shingled spirelet. The church comprises a nave and chancel, with a bellcote to the west and a porch to the south. The Early English style is evident in the lancet windows, which feature sill string courses and two buttresses below on the north and south sides; full-height buttresses mark the junction of nave and chancel. The gabled porch has a chamfered entrance arch and a hollow-chamfered door surround, with a shouldered door head and scrolled C-strap hinges. The chancel has paired, foiled-head lancet windows, three on the south side, and a five-light east window with lights stepping up towards the centre, featuring a quatrefoil panel above. A further eastern lancet window is set within the end of a pent-roofed vestry on the north side of the chancel. The vestry has two-light leaded casement windows, with a quoined offset stack at the junction with the chancel. An arched door to the vestry faces west. A central buttress is located at the west end of the church, flanked by lancet windows, above which is a wheel window with baluster “spokes” and floral carving within a deep chamfered surround. The bellcote has paired human-head corbel stops, with attached shafts, moulded caps, and plinths to the east and west fronts, and one shaft to the north and south sides. Wooden canopies project over the shafts on the east and west faces. Inside, the nave has a scissor-braced five-bay roof with through purlins. The chancel arch is chamfered, with jamb shafts and moulded caps and bases. The chancel roof has two tiers of purlins with cusped windbracing and arched collar braces to long post trusses. The rear window arcades contain trefoil-head two-light windows; the east window arcade has dogs-tooth decoration and girdle moulding on the jamb shafts. A standard design pulpit from the 19th century is present. Unusual sedilia are located under the south-east chancel window arcade.