Church in Lancashire, England
St Luke's Church, Slyne with Hest St Luke's Church, Slyne with Hest, from the east
St Luke's Church, Slyne with Hest
Location in the City of Lancaster district
54°05′16″N 2°48′20″W / 54.0877°N 2.8055°W / 54.0877; -2.8055 OS grid reference SD 474,661 Location Manor Lane, Slyne-with-Hest , Lancaster , Lancashire Country England Denomination Anglican Website St Luke, Slyne with Hest Status Parish church Dedication Saint Luke Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Designated 7 November 1983 Architect(s) Austin and Paley Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Groundbreaking 1898 Completed 1900 Materials Sandstone , tiled roofsProvince York Diocese Blackburn Archdeaconry Lancaster Deanery Tunstall Parish St. Luke Slyne with Hest Vicar(s) Revd Susan Seed Curate(s) Revd Helen Leathard, Reader(s) Martin Wakelin Churchwarden(s) Heather Wakelin
St Luke's Church is in Manor Lane, Slyne-with-Hest , Lancaster , Lancashire , England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Tunstall, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn . Its benefice is united with those of St Saviour, Aughton , and St Wilfrid, Halton .[ 1] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building .[ 2]
The church was built between 1898 and 1900 to a design by the Lancaster architects Austin and Paley .[ 3] It cost £2,358 (equivalent to £320,000 in 2023),[ 4] and provided seating for 180 people.[ 5] The church was originally a chapel of ease in the parish of Holy Trinity, Bolton-le-Sands , becoming a parish church in its own right in 1934.[ 6]
St Luke's is constructed in sandstone rubble , with red tiled roofs and a timber porch. Its plan consists of a nave , a north aisle , a north porch, a chancel , and a tower at the crossing .[ 2] The tower has a hipped roof , a buttress at the southwest, and a stair turret rising to a greater height than the tower at the south east.[ 3] A wooden bellcote protrudes from the roof of the tower.[ 2]
Inside the church is a three-bay arcade carried on circular piers . The tower has a flat ceiling, while the roofs of the nave and chancel are open.[ 2] The font dates from 1905, is in white marble , and is in the form of an angel carrying a scallop shell.[ 3]
^ St Luke, Slyne w Hest , Church of England , retrieved 1 February 2012 ^ a b c d Historic England , "Church of St Luke, Slyne-with-Hest (1071855)" , National Heritage List for England , retrieved 1 February 2012 ^ a b c Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North , The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press , p. 617, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9 ^ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017), "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)" , MeasuringWorth , retrieved 7 May 2024 ^ Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin , Swindon: English Heritage , p. 243, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8 ^ St. Luke's Church , St Luke's, Slyne with Hest, retrieved 1 February 2012
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