CHURCH OF ST LUKE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291424
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1990
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, CHURCH STREET
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Newcastle-under-Lyme (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Silverdale
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 81776 46709
Details
NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME
SJ84NW CHURCH STREET, Silverdale
644-1/3/64 (North side)
26/01/90 Church of St Luke
II
Parish Church. 1853. By R. Armstrong. Coursed and squared
rubble with plain tiled roof with scalloped bands. Decorated
style. SE tower and spire, nave and 2 aisles, chancel.
Buttressed tower of 3 stages with paired lights in lower
stage, clock above, and paired bell-chamber lights. Corbel
table, octagonal brooch spire. Polygonal stair-turret in SE
angle. South aisle porch, buttressed and with coped gable over
simple chamfered archway. Buttresses divide aisle walls into
bays, with 2-light Decorated windows. West door in ogee arch
with heavy mouldings, and 3-light window over. East window to
chancel of 4-lights.
INTERIOR: 5-bay Early English style arcades with alternate
cylindrical and octagonal shafts. Raking trusses carry collars
with queen struts to wind-braced roof. Simple moulded chancel
arch. Encaustic tiles, possibly by Minton to chancel, which
contains Stanier memorial, a large wall tablet erected in 1856
with bust beneath wide ogee arch flanked by pinnacles, the
whole enriched with niches, crockets and foliate decoration.
Stained glass: badly corroded representation of Life of Christ
in east window, undated. Figures of Saints in north and south
aisles, 1892 and 1897. Original oak pews. Chancel screen with
3 traceried arches and cross over, erected as war memorial.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire:
Harmondsworth).
Listing NGR: SJ8177646709
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385917
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974)
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/67344
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/26580
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
