Church of St Luke is a Grade II* listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 March 1987. House.

Church of St Luke

WRENN ID
haunted-forge-rook
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Caerphilly
Country
Wales
Date first listed
5 March 1987
Type
House
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St Luke is a large church built in a dramatically simplified Early Gothic style. It is constructed from roughly dressed freestone and concrete, with few ashlar dressings. The layout includes an aisled nave with parish rooms located on the lower ground floor at the west end, a tall south tower, a chancel with overlapping aisles, a north porch, and southeast vestries.

The two-storey west front features a tall, crenellated, and buttressed central bay, with buttresses that have offsets, a deep string course, and a battered plinth. There are long and narrow twin lancets with a sill band. At the lower level, there is a wide central entrance doorway with a deep recessed arch, a cyclopean hoodmould, imposts, and jambs, topped by a leaded fanlight over the lintel. The outer bays contain triple lancets above a wide pointed arched opening to the left, which has a further lower ground floor entrance doorway below it; to the right, there are two tiers of lancets. The nave clerestory and aisles are adorned with parapets, string courses, and waterspouts, featuring single and paired lancets, along with a tall chimney at the northwest.

The north porch has a square-headed doorway under a hoodmould that extends to the sides, made of cyclopean masonry, and the interior has a concrete vault. The east chancel parapet is stepped up, with a tunnel vault behind it, and the east window consists of five stepped lancets. The tall square tapered south tower includes a projecting stair turret, a corbelled crenellated top, paired louvred lancets in the bell chamber, and a round-arched doorway with an impost band, but no buttresses.

Inside, the church features exposed masonry and concrete, with wide uneven four-centred arches supported by polygonal piers that lack capitals in the nave arcades. Paired clerestory lancets are positioned over spandrels, and quadrant arches meet a similarly wide chancel arch. The ceilings are flat. There is one step up to the chancel, three steps to the sanctuary, and a flight of steps at the west end leads to the lower level entrance and rooms. No furnishings have survived.

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