Church Of St Luke And Attached Side Railings

The Church of St Luke, built between 1842 and 1850 by ST Welch, is located on Queen Ann Road in Barton Hill, Bristol. It was altered in 1930 by AV Gough. The church is constructed of pennant rubble with limestone dressings and features a double Roman roof, showcasing a Gothic Revival style.

The layout includes a nave, a 20th-century apse, and a west tower. The lower octagonal apse has three traceried windows, two flanking trefoil windows, and angle buttresses topped with crocketed pinnacles. The north elevation is divided into five bays by buttresses, featuring an ashlar parapet, Y-tracery windows, and a central raised gable that contains a two-centred arched doorway with foliate spandrels, topped by a Y-tracery window with a crocketed ogee hoodmould. The south side lacks a central gable.

The west end has a projecting square three-stage tower with a two-centred arched doorway, which is enclosed by a mid-20th-century annex. Above the doorway is a four-light window with intersecting tracery set in an arched recess. The tower features a cornice below a broach tower and mouldings beneath an octagonal ashlar belfry with louvred lancets and a leaded roof, which was originally capped by a small spire. Y-tracery windows flank the tower.

Inside, the church has a bracketed, arch-braced apse roof and a two-centre chancel arch. The nave has eight bays with bracketed tie beams supported by moulded corbels, and pointed arches above that brace the flat roof. A rear gallery on thin cluster columns features a balustrade with ogee-headed panels, and there are openwork tracery panels at the rear and on the second stage of the tower. The octagonal pulpit is adorned with marble columns featuring foliate capitals and sunken traceried panels.

Additionally, the church is complemented by cast-iron spear-headed railings situated between the side buttresses. This building is recognized as an early Commissioner's Church, reflecting a late Georgian style with an aisleless body and a pre-archaeological Gothic style, highlighted by its Soanian tower.