CHURCH OF ST LUKE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257554
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1996
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, LIVERPOOL ROAD
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, LIVERPOOL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 32158 99855
Details
CROSBY
SJ39NW LIVERPOOL ROAD
778-1/3/56 (East side)
Church of St Luke
II
Church. 1853-4, by A & G Holme (Pevsner); recently severely
damaged by fire and substantially re-built at rear and
internally in C20 style. Coursed sandstone rubble with
freestone dressings, metal sheet roof.
STYLE: Simple Decorated.
PLAN: wide aisleless nave with north and south transepts,
chancel, and west steeple.
EXTERIOR: the tower, of 3 equal stages successively set back,
with full-height diagonal buttresses, has a large 2-centred
arched west doorway moulded in 3 orders, with a hoodmould, a
1-stage semi-circular vice in the left angle, with staggered
cusped spherical-triangle windows, a 2-centred 3-light window
to the 2nd stage, with tracery, a clockface in the lower part
of the 3rd stage breaking into a 2-light louvred belfry window
on this side, similar belfry windows in the other sides, and a
broach spire swept at the foot. The 4-bay nave, with
buttresses, has a large gabled porch to the 2nd bay of the
south side, with a doorway like that in the tower, and
2-centred arched 2-light windows in the other bays, with
tracery. Full-height 2-bay transepts in similar style, with
larger windows in the gable walls. C20 metal-clad turret at
crossing; C20 apse and similar additions to chancel.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ3215899855
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463750
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969), 115
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
