Church Of St Luke

ST GERMANS TIDEFORD CROSS LANE (east side), SX 35 NW Tideford 4/139 Church of St Luke 23.1.68 GV II

Parish church. 1845 by George Wightwick. Coursed greenstone rubble with limestone dressings. Slate roof with raised coped verges to chancel. Plan: Nave and chancel, with south porch to nave and north vestry to chancel. Nave: has weathered buttresses, on the south side a 2-light and a 3-light window with 4-centred arched head, hood mould and Perpendicular tracery; bay to west has gabled porch with tall 4-centred arched doorway, double doors, raised coped verges and kneelers to gable with cross finial, moulded eaves cornice. West end of nave has similar 2-light window with Y-tracery. To north, two 3-light windows and central 2- light window, as to south. Slate-hung bellcote with bell, spire with cross finial. Chancel: at lower roof level, has 3-light east window with cusped lights and reticulated tracery, similar 2-light south window. Vestry to north. Interior: Nave has 4-bay hammer-beam roof rising from stone corbels. Stepped chamfered 4-centred arch to chancel. Pointed arched door to north vestry, with squint doorway giving access to pupit by chancel arch. Chancel windows have busts as stops to hood moulds. Fittings: Fine Norman font, from chapel of St Luke near Bolventor. C19 wooden benches in nave, readers' desks in chancel with poppy head ends. Panelled wooden pulpit in nave. Monuments: marble tablet on slate ground, in the chancel, to Elizabeth Bury, 1853. Sources: Radcliffe, E. : Buildings of England: Cornwall 1970.

Listing NGR: SX3478159911