Church of St Luke City Library Annexe is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 November 1998. Nonconformist chapel, library annexe. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Luke City Library Annexe
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-doorway-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1998
- Type
- Nonconformist chapel, library annexe
- Address
- Church of St Luke City Library Annexe, Tavistock Place, City of Plymouth, PL4 8AX
- OS grid reference
- SX 481 548
- Coordinates
- 50.37382, -4.13704
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Luke City Library Annexe is a former Nonconformist chapel built in 1828, which later became a library annexe. The building features stucco over brick and has a gabled slate roof, designed in a Classical style. It has a rectangular auditorium plan and stands two storeys tall. The front façade is pedimented and has four windows, which are late 19th-century two-light windows with round tracery set in semicircular arched openings. The central and outer doorways are also in similar openings, although the ones to the centre and right are blocked. The three first-floor windows are set forward from the main plane of the façade and are positioned over tetrastyle Tuscan pilasters with an entablature. The pediment is topped with a bellcote, and a plat band returns to the simpler side elevations.
Inside, the building retains its 1828 gallery with a panelled front and a moulded plaster ceiling cornice above, along with original panelled box pews. This structure is a notable example of a large urban chapel in the Classical style.
Local climate
Church of St Luke City Library Annexe sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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