The Church of St Luke,

High Orchard High Orchard was an industrial area of the city of Gloucester in England that was developed in the 19th century on the former orchard of the Priory of Llanthony Secunda (1136). The area was closely associated with Gloucester Docks immediately ...

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, was a

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church built and endowed by the Reverend

Samuel Lysons Samuel Lysons (1763 – June 1819) was an English antiquarian and engraver who, together with his elder brother Daniel Lysons (1762–1834), published several works on antiquarian topics. He was one of the first archaeologists to investigate ...

, rector of

Rodmarton Rodmarton is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire. History Evidence of a Roman settlement has been found at Rodmarton. Through the parish runs a Roman trackway from Cirencester and Chavenage Green, adjacent to which is a long barrow ...

, who was also the first minister.

History

The church was designed by the architect

Thomas Fulljames Thomas Fulljames FRIBA (4 March 1808 – 24 April 1874) was an architect active in Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( abbreviated Glos) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the ...

of Gloucester in what ''

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'' described as "a neat structure in the later style of Early English". It was consecrated in 1841.St. Luke, High Orchard.
British History Online. Retrieved 26 August 2017. The first minister was Samuel Lysons, rector of Rodmarton. He resigned in 1866. The curate in 1846 was Lewis Alexander Beck. St Luke's was demolished in 1934 and

stained glass Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant religious buildings. Although tradition ...

from the building, much of it German or Dutch of the 15th to the 18th centuries, was reused at

Holy Trinity Church, Longlevens Holy Trinity Church is a grade II listed Church of England church in Longlevens, Gloucester. It was designed by Howard Stratton Davis and built in 1933–1934 in a fifteenth-century perpendicular Gothic style. It includes German and Dutch stai ...

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*http://churchdb.gukutils.org.uk/GLS252.php Churches completed in 1841 19th-century Church of England church buildings Church of England church buildings in Gloucester Buildings and structures demolished in 1934 Demolished churches in England Thomas Fulljames buildings Lysons family {{UK-anglican-church-stub