Church of St Luke
CHURCH OF ST LUKE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121472
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121472
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, CHURCH LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ferryhill
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 28842 32705
Details
NZ 23 SE FERRYHILL CHURCH LANE
(South side)
6/22 Church of St Luke
9/1/68
GV
II
Parish church. 1853 by G. Pickering; 1851 decision to replace 1820 chapel by
Bonomi. Coursed limestone rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings, plinth and
quoins; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and stone ridge. Nave with
north porch; chancel with north vestry. Early English style. Steeply-gabled
porch has boarded door with elaborate hinges in deep moulded surround with
head-stopped dripmould. 4-bay nave has lancets, paired in second- bay from
east, and plate tracery in 2-light window in east bay on north, and in
westernmost bay on south; cusped lancets in set-back chancel, stepped in east
elevation, and tracery in west bay on south. High gabled west bellcote with
central buttress. Coped buttresses in nave, gabled angle buttresses to
chancel. Small stone turret at junction of vestry and chancel roofs.
Interior shows painted plaster above boarded dado; wall-posts (stone-corbelled,
and longer between windows), support arch-braced collars with struts to
principal rafters, and short king posts. Double-chamfered chancel arch, the
inner on nail-head-patterned shafts on head corbels. Rere-arches to chancel
windows. 1952 west gallery with organ. Glass includes 1953 L.C. Evetts east
windows. Gothic-style carved wood altar with symbols of Passion in front
panels. Octagonal stone pedestal font with single blank shield, and wrought
iron straps on wood cover. Roll-moulded squared ends on pews. South nave
wall monument to members of Tiplady family, died 1789 and 1809: marble with
pilasters and fret panel below cornice; transferred from earlier chapel.
Sources: W. Fordyce, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatinate of
Durham, 1857; p.441.
Ferryhill Village Women's Institute, History of Ferryhill Village, (typescript
in Ferryhill Library).
Church vestry minute book of 1851 reference to plans by Mr. Pickering.
Listing NGR: NZ2884232705
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 112229
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
History of Ferryhill Village, ()
Fordyce, W, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatinate of Durham, (1857), 441
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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