Church of St Luke is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1958. A C19 Church.

Church of St Luke

WRENN ID
white-postern-root
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cotswold
Constituency
North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 November 1958
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Luke, Sapperton
OS grid reference
SO 921 026
Coordinates
51.72244, -2.11518
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St. Luke is an Anglican chapel of ease built in 1844 by J. Parish. It is constructed from coursed and dressed rubble stone, topped with a Cotswold stone-slate roof and features coped gables with cross finials. The building is a single block that includes an apsidal chancel and a tower located at the southwest corner, designed in a Romanesque style.

The tower consists of four stages with offsets and vestigial angle buttresses on the lower two stages. It has a single step round arch entrance on the south side, complete with impost blocks and chamfered jambs. The third stage features a round-headed slit window facing south, while the belfry on the fourth stage is adorned with open twin arches on all sides, topped with a hipped and sprocketed tile roof that includes a weathervane.

The nave comprises five bays, each containing a single light round arch window recessed within an arch, which is further set into a rectangular panel with a line of modillions at the top, a weathered sill, and a continuous offset below. The apsidal chancel has five similar but narrower windows and a conical roof, with a line of modillions that now forms a decorative Lombard frieze along the top of the panels. Projecting rafters are present at the eaves all around. The west window is tripartite, featuring a central round arch that is higher than the others, with moulded architraves and impost blocks linking the three windows.

Inside, the church has a hammer beam roof supported by carved corbels and wind bracing. The apse features six ribs that converge at a boss carved with a cross motif, which is supported on colonnettes with carved capitals and low corbels. The interior also includes simple geometrical stained glass.

Local climate

Church of St Luke receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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