Church of St Luke Rossington, England
Listed Building Data
Church of St Luke has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1392566
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 28 April 2008
- Name
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE
- Location
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, THE CIRCLE
- Parish
- Rossington
- District
- Doncaster
- Grid Reference
- SK 61154 98100
- Easting
- 461153.9400
- Northing
- 398100.1498
Listed Building Reasons
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
St Luke's Church, New Rossington, is designated for listing at Grade II for the following principal reasons: The 1915 church, designed as a basilica, is indicative of a reviving interest in the architecture of the early Christian church in the early C20, of which this is a relatively early example with most examples belonging to the 1920s and 1930s due to church building being severely curtailed by the First World War It was an integral designed element of a new planned coalmining village funded by the South Yorkshire Coalfields Extension Committee It is the most intact and unaltered example of a group of four such brick churches designed as a variation on a theme by F Norman Masters as new centres of mining activity were developed in the South Yorkshire Coalfields in the early C20 Externally it has the added interest of an unusual open-air pulpit, and the interior is unaltered with integrally designed fixtures and fittings, including an organ, hexagonal pulpit, marble font, and wooden trellis-work screens infilling arches.
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
ROSSINGTON
1489/0/10006 THE CIRCLE 28-APR-08 CHURCH OF ST LUKE
II Anglican Church. 1915-16. Architect: F Norman Masters (Doncaster). Red brick with stone dressings, slates to the nave and aisles, and plain red tiles to the two apse roofs. PLAN: Basilica with a semi-circular apse at each end, one containing the sanctuary, the other the baptistery, and a narthex. EXTERIOR: Nave of eight bays divided by brick pilasters, with a brick corbelled and dog-tooth eaves cornice, and stone copings with a cross at the east end. At east end the two chancel clerestorey bays each have two round-headed windows with continuous brick head-moulds and stone sills. The window frames are metal with small-pane glazing. The nave clerestorey bays each have three similar round-headed windows, except for the westernmost bay, which is blind. The south aisle is of eight corresponding bays, with a similar eaves cornice. The left (westernmost) bay has a round-headed doorway opening into a porch, with a wide round-headed opening to the side elevation (with a metal grille). To the rear of the porch is round-headed archway with a wooden double door in a square trellis pattern, with a wooden overlight of diagonal trellis-work. In the sixth bay from the left is a second, flat-headed doorway opening into the aisle, with a wooden square trellis-work door. The remaining bays each have two round-headed windows similar to those in the nave clerestorey. The north aisle is of six bays with a projecting single-storey gabled vestry at the east end and a projecting two-storey structure at the west end, which houses the narthex porch, and was intended to form the base of a campanile, which was not built due to a lack of funds. The aisle has a flat-headed doorway in its left (easternmost) bay leading into the vestry lobby, with a narrow adjacent round-headed window. The remaining bays are similar to those in the south aisle, each with two round-headed windows with metal frames with small-pane glazing. The vestry gable wall has two round-headed windows with stone sills, set under a single semi-circular brick relieving arch. The north elevation of the campanile base has two tall round-headed recesses incorporating three narrow windows, with a stone band above intended to carry the second stage of the campanile, which was instead modified to form a double-pitched roof, with a wooden louvre for a bell. The narthex porch has a large doorway in the west elevation with a stone surround with an engaged column to each side set against two square pilasters, with composite capitals incorporating stylised Byzantine basket-weave and ionic capitals. Giant fluted consoles support a dentilled cornice and stone tympanum incised with a central circle and spandrel to each side. The tympanum is set within a receding round-headed brick arch. There are double wooden doors in a square trellis pattern. To the right (south) side of the doorway is an open-fronted five-bay arcade at first-floor level, with round-headed arches and stone columns with Byzantine basket capitals. The central bay has a projecting rectangular pulpit of carved stone supported on a central moulded stone corbel and console. Either side of the console, at ground-floor level, is a pair of small round-headed windows, with stone sills, brick head moulds, and metal frames with small-pane glazing. At both east and west ends is a semi-circular apse. The east apse is larger, with three round-headed windows separated by brick pilasters. They have stone sills, brick head moulds, and metal window frames. The west apse is built projecting straight out one bay before returning in to the semi-circular apse. The three round-headed windows have similar detailing. INTERIOR: The building has brick round-headed arches, with brickwork up to dado height in the aisles, porches, vestry and lady chapel (painted white in places), and three-quarter height in the sanctuary and baptistery (the former now painted white). Above, the
