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WOLVERHAMPTON

SO99NW UPPER VILLIERS STREET
895-1/5/39 (East side)
Church of St Luke

GV II*

Church. 1860-1. By G.T. Robinson of Leamington. Red brick with
buff brick, blue brick and ashlar dressings; slate roofs.
Apsed chancel with north chapel and vestry, and south organ
loft; aisled nave with narthex and south west steeple. Roguish
Gothic Revival style. Chancel has brick and ashlar banding;
gabled buttresses to angles; pointed windows have decorative
brick hoods and ashlar lintel bands, coped gables over. Organ
loft is gabled with stepped triplet of lancets on slender iron
colonnettes and angle buttresses; chapel similar, with gabled
vestry to east, 2-light window and spherical diamond window.
Nave has coped gables with crosses; 3 gabled spherical
triangle clerestory windows to each side; 6-bay aisles have
cornices and paired lancets on stone colonnettes between
buttresses. West lean-to narthex has arcading on iron columns
paired in depth; gabled entrance with iron shafts, relief of
Journey to Emmaus to tympanum; 2 west windows of 2 lights with
roundel above, flying buttress to left. 4-stage tower has
brick and ashlar banding; angle buttresses and round south
east turret with conical roof; south entrance with gablet on
iron columns, relief of St Luke over trumeau; paired lancets
to west, and to 2nd stage; 3rd stage has triple bell openings
over corbelled frieze; cornice; weathered base to octagonal
top stage; lancets with inserted clock faces and top frieze;
slate spire with narrow lucarnes.
INTERIOR: panelled chancel scissor-truss roof; 3-bay arcades
on iron columns with rich traceried parclose screens, now
glazed; nave has 6-bay arcades on iron columns paired
longitudinally with trumpet capitals, polychrome arches; deep
arch-braced scissor truss roof; tripartite chancel arch and
paired arches to chapel and organ loft; braced ties to aisle
roofs on carved corbels. Altar has rich arcading, reredos has
high relief of Last Supper; good stalls; pulpit on 3 shafts
has evangelists in niches; war memorial reredos to chapel;
octagonal font on one large and 4 small shafts; good C19 glass
to chancel; chapel has glass dated 1913.
A good design making use of polychrome and much use of
cast-iron, with some remarkable roguish detail.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London:
1974-: P.322).


Listing NGR: SO9132197172

Source: English Heritage

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