Church Of St Luke

The Church of St Luke is a church built around 1856, with the architect remaining unknown. It features dressed lias stone, with a section rendered to resemble ashlar on the left side of the porch, and slate hung on the west end. The church has Ham stone dressings, a stepped sill string course below the windows, a coved cornice, and coped verges on the chancel arch wall, all topped with slate roofs.

The layout includes a three-bay nave, a bell-cote, a south porch, a chancel, and a north-east vestry, all designed in the Early English style. The slate-hung gabled bell-cote rises from a central buttress at the west end, which is pierced by two lancet windows. Lower flanking buttresses with cement caps are connected by a high plinth. The single-storey gabled porch has a pointed arch opening accessed by a flight of four steps, with trefoil lights on the returns and a pointed arch inner doorway featuring double doors with decorative hinges. The nave has two paired lancets, while the chancel has three lancets and set-back buttresses, with an east window of three lancets and a lancet on the north wall of the chancel. The lean-to roofed vestry has two lancets on its east side and a shouldered doorway on the north front, along with three paired lancets in the nave.

Inside, the church is rendered and features a pointed chancel arch. The nave roof is arched and braced, with a collar beam made of varnished pine, as are all the fittings and the harmonium. The ecclesiastical parish was established in 1856 from the Royal Forest of Exmoor, and the early experiences of the first vicar, the Rev W H Thornton, are documented in his memoirs, 'Reminiscences of An Old West Country Clergyman'.