St. Luke the Evangelist Church, Silverdale, Newcastle

Image: © Brian Deegan Taken: 3 Dec 2017

Parish Church. 1853. By R. Armstrong. Coursed and squared rubble with plain tiled roof with scalloped bands. Decorated style. SE tower and spire, nave and 2 aisles, chancel. Buttressed tower of 3 stages with paired lights in lower stage, clock above, and paired bell-chamber lights. Corbel table, octagonal brooch spire. Polygonal stair-turret in SE angle. South aisle porch, buttressed and with coped gable over simple chamfered archway. Buttresses divide aisle walls into bays, with 2-light Decorated windows. West door in ogee arch with heavy mouldings, and 3-light window over. East window to chancel of 4-lights. INTERIOR: 5-bay Early English style arcades with alternate cylindrical and octagonal shafts. Raking trusses carry collars with queen struts to wind-braced roof. Simple moulded chancel arch. Encaustic tiles, possibly by Minton to chancel, which contains Stanier memorial, a large wall tablet erected in 1856 with bust beneath wide ogee arch flanked by pinnacles, the whole enriched with niches, crockets and foliate decoration. Stained glass: badly corroded representation of Life of Christ in east window, undated. Figures of Saints in north and south aisles, 1892 and 1897. Original oak pews. Chancel screen with 3 traceried arches and cross over, erected as war memorial. St. Luke >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_the_Evangelist Silverdale >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverdale,_Staffordshire

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