St Luke's Church, Preston

Coordinates: 53°45′58″N 2°41′01″W / 53.7660°N 2.6836°W / 53.7660; -2.6836
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St Luke's Church, Preston
Style
Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking1858
Completed1859
Construction cost£4,733
Closed1990
Specifications
Capacity800
MaterialsSandstone, 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

  1. ^ a b c Historic England, "Church of St Luke, Preston (1207329)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 26 June 2018
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  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ 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