St Luke's Church is in Lodge Road,
Orrell,
Wigan
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,
Greater Manchester
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, England. It is an active
Anglican
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parish church
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in the deanery of Wigan, the archdeaconry of Warrington, and the
diocese of Liverpool
The Diocese of Liverpool is a Church of England diocese based in Liverpool, covering Merseyside north of the River Mersey, part of West Lancashire, part of Wigan in Greater Manchester, Widnes and part of Warrington and in Cheshire (it was origi ...
.
History
The three west
bays
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of St Luke's were built in 1926–27, but the remainder was not completed until 1939. It had been planned to have a southwest tower, but this was never built. The church was designed by
Henry Paley
Henry Anderson Paley (1859–1946) (usually known as Harry Paley) was an English architect.
Training and career
He was the fifth and last child of the Lancaster architect Edward Paley. He was educated at Castle Howard School in Lancaster, then ...
of the
Lancaster firm of architects
Austin and Paley
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.
Architecture
The church is designed mainly in
Perpendicular
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style, and has a polygonal
apse
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at the east end. Inside the church, the
arcades are carried on octagonal
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* Piers baronets, two titles, in the baronetages ...
. Under the
chancel
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Ove ...
arch is a low wall with an integral
pulpit
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. The
sedilia
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and furnishings were designed by the architects, and include an octagonal
font
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In mod ...
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External features
The churchyard contains the war graves of a soldier and three airmen
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In civilian aviation usage, t ...
of World War II
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See also
*List of ecclesiastical works by Austin and Paley (1916–44)
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People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...
*List of churches in Greater Manchester
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References
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Church of England church buildings in Greater Manchester
Churches completed in 1938
20th-century Church of England church buildings
Gothic Revival church buildings in England
Gothic Revival architecture in Greater Manchester
Anglican Diocese of Liverpool
Austin and Paley buildings