Church in Lancashire, England
St Luke's Church is a redundant Anglican parish church in St Luke's Place, Preston , Lancashire , England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building .[ 1]
The church was built in 1858–59 and designed by E. H. Shellard at an estimated cost of £4,733.[ 2] It opened on 3 August 1859, and provided seating for 800 people.[ 3] The church was declared redundant on 1 January 1990, and passed into residential use on 24 February 1995.[ 4] It was converted into flats.[ 2]
St Luke's is built in sandstone , has a slate roof, and is in Early English style. It consists of a six-bay nave with a clerestory , north and south aisles , a chancel with a north organ-house and a south vestry , and a southwest steeple. The tower is in five stages, and has a stair turret at the northwest corner. There is an arched doorway on the south side, and in the second and third stages are lancet windows . The fourth and fifth stages contain triple arcades , those in the fifth stage being bell openings with louvres . On the top corners are gargoyles in the form of angels, and octagonal pinnacles . On the summit of the tower is a broach spire with two tiers of lucarnes .[ 1]
Along the sides of the aisles the bays are separated by buttresses , each bay containing a pair of lancet windows, and on each side of the clerestory are six circular windows. There is a porch in the second bay of the north aisle. At the west end of the nave are two tall lancet windows, with two smaller lancets below and a wheel window above. At the east end of the chancel is a stepped triple lancet window. There are more lancet windows at the west end of the south aisle, in the organ-house, and in the vestry. Most of the windows contain Geometrical tracery .[ 1]
^ a b c Historic England , "Church of St Luke, Preston (1207329)" , National Heritage List for England , retrieved 26 June 2018
^ a b Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North , The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press , p. 537, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
^ Hewitson, A. (1869), The Church of St Luke in the Town of Preston , Our Churches and Chapels, Preston: Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerks, retrieved 26 June 2018
^ Diocese of Blackburn: All Schemes (PDF) , Church Commissioners/Statistics, Church of England , 1 October 2012, p. 5, archived from the original (PDF) on 9 October 2014, retrieved 26 May 2014
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