St Luke's Church, Preston
St Luke's Church, Preston | ||
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Style Gothic Revival | | |
Groundbreaking | 1858 | |
Completed | 1859 | |
Construction cost | £4,733 | |
Closed | 1990 | |
Specifications | ||
Capacity | 800 | |
Materials | Sandstone, slate roofs |
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]
History
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]
Architecture
St Luke's is built 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
See also
References
- ^ a b c Historic England, "Church of St Luke, Preston (1207329)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 26 June 2018
- ^ 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