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St Luke's Church, Torver 
St Luke's Church, TorverLocation in Cumbria
St Luke's Church, TorverCoordinates: 54°20′18″N 3°06′08″W / 54.3382°N 3.1022°W OS grid reference SD 285 943 Location Torver, Cumbria Country England Denomination Anglican Website St Luke, Torver History Dedication Saint Luke Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Designated 25 March 1970 Architect(s) Paley and Austin Architectural type Church Style Norman Revival Completed 1884 Specifications Materials Slate with sandstone dressings
Slate roofAdministration Parish Torver Deanery Furness Archdeaconry Westmorland and Furness Diocese Carlisle Province York Clergy Vicar(s) Revd Mark Richard East St Luke's Church, Torver, is located in the village of Torver, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Furness, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle.[1] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.[2]
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History
The church was built in 1884 to a design by the Lancaster partnership of Paley and Austin.[3]
Architecture
St Luke's is described by the architectural historians Hyde and Pevsner as being "chunky" and "robust".[3] It is constructed in dressed slate with sandstone dressings and slate roofs. Its plan consists of a three-bay nave and a chancel, with a tower between them. On the north side is a vestry, and on the south side is a porch. The windows and the entrance are round-headed, the entrance arch being decorated with zigzags. At the west end are a pair of windows, and at the east end are three windows, the central one being wider than the others. The tower has buttresses on the north and south sides, louvred bell openings, a coped cornice, and a low pyramidal roof surmounted by a fish weathervane. Internally, the tower is supported by round arches. The church contains a plain octagonal font.[2] The two-manual organ was built by Young in 1899.[4]
See also
- List of ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin
References
- ^ St Luke, Torver, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/torver-st-luke/, retrieved 7 October 2011
- ^ a b Church of St Luke, Torver (1087212). National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
- ^ a b Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2010) [1967], Cumbria, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 640, ISBN 978-0-300-12663-1
- ^ Lancashire (Cumbria), Torver, St. Luke (D00945), British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D00945, retrieved 7 October 2011
Categories:- Church of England churches in Cumbria
- Diocese of Carlisle
- Grade II listed churches
- Grade II listed buildings in Cumbria
- Romanesque Revival architecture
- Religious buildings completed in 1884
- 19th-century Anglican church buildings
- Paley and Austin buildings
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