Church of St Luke is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 March 1990. Church.

Church of St Luke

WRENN ID
secret-cobalt-alder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 March 1990
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Luke, Lowick, Westmorland and Furness
OS grid reference
SD 289 860
Coordinates
54.26539, -3.09165
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Luke is a church built in 1865, constructed from coursed slate rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings and slate roofs. It features a nave, a chancel with a south organ loft and a north vestry, and a west tower. The building has coped gables. The five-bay nave includes lancet windows that alternate with weathered buttresses. The two-bay chancel has a gabled organ loft with buttresses, a quatrefoil window on the south side, and an early 19th-century wall sundial from a previous church on the gable. The east side has a triplet of lancets with flanking buttresses, while the north vestry has a catslide roof and a straight-headed window. The west tower features weathered angle buttresses and lancet windows, a gabled south porch, paired louvred bell openings, an embattled parapet, and a pyramidal roof topped with a weather vane. There is also a stair turret on the north side. Inside, the church has a scissor rafter roof and a double-chamfered chancel arch that dies into the jambs. Some windows contain stained glass, while most have leaded glazing in decorative patterns. The interior also features the Georgian royal arms.

Local climate

Church of St Luke sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,600 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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