Diameter: 23" Bell 1 of 1
Founded by Mears & Stainbank 1909
Dove Bell ID: 61602 Tower ID: 24400 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Walthamstow: St Luke
Overview
Grid reference: TQ 371 895
A long and low Edwardian Gothic church of brick with white-painted wooden detailing. The church was built in 1902 to designs by Bottle and Olley of Great Yarmouth, the builder was S J Scott of Walthamstow. This is a simple design in the Tudor Perpendicular style so popular at the time, all the windows tall with cusped heads within 4-centred arch-headed frames. The impression is of a building of the self-confident industrial age, the components mass-produced.
Visiting and facilities
Building is closed for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
5-bay aisled nave, the aisles continuing externally along the slightly narrower and lower chancel to form vestries, south-west tower rising from the western aisle bay, transverse western room.
Dimensions:
Nave approximately 20m (65ft ft) x 7.8m (25ft).
Description of Archaeology and History
The first part of the complex to be built was a Church Room built in 1901, which now stands across the west end of the church and is accessible from it. The church was built in 1902 to designs by Bottle and Olley of Great Yarmouth, the builder was S J Scott of Walthamstow. The school was added in 1906.
These developments were an answer to the expansion of Walthamstow from the early 19th century from a rural Essex village, the remains of which is grouped around the parish church of St Mary half a mile to the east, to a suburb of London. The interior was refurbished in 1923 by Wippel & co.
Exterior Description
This is a simple design in the Tudor Perpendicular style so popular at the time, all the windows tall with cusped heads within 4-centred arch-headed frames. The impression is of a building of the self-confident industrial age, the components mass-produced. The short tower with pyramid roof gives a little vertical emphasis and announces the building as a church. It has a nicely articulated belfry stage with square louvred openings between cusped blind tracery timber panels. The stage below is pierced by a single lancet in each face.
The aisle walls are pierced by 3-light windows, with the exception of the eastern two bays, which have a pointed doorway and a single light in the eastern bay; similar lights in the east end of the aisles. Brick pilasters define the bays. The western bay of the south aisle has the 3-light window set above the main doorway leading into the church, with a timber Tudor arched head with carved decoration. The transverse block at the west end has timber-framed gable ends over a 3-light window within a square frame flanked by single lights. The east chancel and west nave walls have respectively a 5-light and a 3-light with a transom. There is no clearstorey, instead four 2-light dormer windows in the nave roof illuminate the interior.
Building Materials
Brick
Yellow stock brick with red brick detailing
Clay
Clay tile roof
Interior
Interior Description
Moving inside, the interior is quite plain, the walls painted white. The open timber nave roof is the main feature of interest, a false hammer-beam arrangement, arch-braced with a collar rising from plain square posts which form the aisle arcades with pointed arched struts between and embellished with tracery panels, all quite rough and machine-cut, the whole having a rather industrial appearance. The chancel roof is a pointed tunnel vault with a moulded wall-plate, the timber chancel arch has harvest carvings. The floors are of woodblock, sinking and buckling in places, the nave and chancel laid with carpet, respectively blue and red patterned.
At the west end is a triple-arched opening with shutters which gives access to the church room, the latter accessed from the west lobby. The north-west corner is screened off and forms a baptistery, with benches around the font. The nave and aisles are fully pewed with light-stained benches with panelled backs and shaped ends in the nave, older, darker stained benches in the aisles, the latter numbered. The organ occupies the western bay south of the chapel, the pipes displayed to the aisle and chancel; the bay opposite is occupied by the choir stalls, light-stained with high backs and sides. There is a wood and glass panelled draught lobby in the north-east corner to an external door to the hall. Doors hidden behind the curtains which line the sanctuary walls lead to a vestry and store room.
Fixtures and fittings
Altar
1923
Mahogany table, carved on front “this do in remembrance of me”.
Reredos
1923
Oak panelling with Lords Prayer, Ten Commandments and Creed, acanthus cornice.
Pulpit
1923
Hexagonal oak pulpit with tracery panels between miniature buttresses, coved foot. Given as a World War I memorial (brass plaque on base).
Lectern
1923
Plain oak.
Font (object)
1923
Round stone font with ihs in roundel on bowl, moulded square base.
Organ (object)
2-manual pipe organ built by Monk & Gunther of Tottenham, converted to electrical. Brass plaque attached to case remembers the fallen in World War II. Piano by F J Ackermann of Stuttgart.
Rail
1923
Plain oak
Bells
Churchyard
Grid reference: TQ 371 895
Burial and War Grave Information
It is unknown whether the building is consecrated.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has been used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard is used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has war graves.
National Heritage record for England designations
There are no records of National Heritage assets within the curtilage of this site.
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
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There are no records of Ancient, Veteran or Notable Trees within the curtilage of this site.
Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | No |
| Solar Thermal Panels | No |
| Biomass | No |
| Wind Turbine | No |
| Air Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ev Charging | No |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
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