Church Of St Luke

The Church of St Luke is a parish church built between 1879 and 1880 by G E Street in the Perpendicular style. It cost approximately £4000, largely funded by Sir John Hawkshaw and George H Street, a relative of the architect. The church replaced an earlier building that had become too small, and the old church was subsequently used as a Sunday School. Six bells were cast by I Taylor of Loughborough in 1886, and there are several stained glass windows, including two from around 1899 by Christopher Whall.

The church is constructed of Wealden sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, and has a tiled roof with alternating bands of plain and fishscale tiles, along with terracotta ridge tiles. It comprises a four-bay nave with aisles, a two-bay chancel, a west tower, a north-west porch, and a south-east vestry. The four-stage west tower features an octagonal stair turret, an arched entrance, arched windows to the first stage, and square tablets with circular decoration and trefoil spandrels to the second stage. The bell stage has paired louvred arches, and the tower is topped with a crenellated parapet. The nave has quatrefoil windows to the clerestory, while the aisle windows are triple trefoliated windows separated by buttresses. The gabled north-west porch has a tiled roof with carved bargeboards and two lancet windows. The chancel has two trefoil windows and an east window with reticulated tracery. The north vestry features a gable with a circular window and three lancets below.

Inside, the church has a pointed arched arcade on circular columns with stiff leaf capitals. It has an arch-braced roof with two tiers of purlins supported on stone corbels. Original pews and a chequerwork tiled floor remain. A circular font, believed to be of Saxon origin and constructed from three 19th-century columns, was found buried in the churchyard. A carved wooden panel dated 1658, likely from the previous church, is fixed to the west wall. There are seven late 19th-century stained glass windows, including the two by Christopher Whall. The north wall of the nave depicts St George, David, and Jonathan, while the south wall shows Joshua and the Centurion. The stone pulpit has yellow marble quatrefoils, a black marble band, and green marble colonnettes. The chancel, accessed by three stone steps, features an arch-braced roof, elaborately carved choir stalls with quatrefoil motifs, and a tiled floor. An organ by Norman and Beard, dating from around 1890, is also present, along with a piscina and sedilia. The 1882 reredos includes paintings from 1883, initialled G H I, depicting the Apostles, Four Evangelists, and Christ. The vestry retains original cupboards and panelling, thought to have originated from the Old Chapel.