St Luke's Church is an

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church in

Endon Endon is a village within the Staffordshire Moorlands district of Staffordshire, England. It is southwest of Leek and north-northeast of Stoke-on-Trent. Endon was formerly a township in civil parish of Leek. Together with neighbouring Stanl ...

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, England, and in the

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. The building, dating originally from about 1720 and rebuilt in the 1870s, is

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History and description

The original church was built in 1719–1721. It had a

nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...

with a west tower, and two galleries, one of which was accessed from external stairs on the tower. It was a

chapel of ease A chapel of ease (or chapel-of-ease) is a church architecture, church building other than the parish church, built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently, generally due to trav ...

for the parish church of Leek, St Edward's; in 1865 the parish of Endon was created, which included Longsdon until 1889.A P Baggs, M F Cleverdon, D A Johnson and N J Tringham, 'Leek: Endon', in ''A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 7, Leek and the Moorlands'', ed. C R J Currie and M W Greenslade (London, 1996), pp. 175-186
British History Online. Retrieved 22 June 2023. The church was rebuilt in the 1870s by Beardmore of Hanley, preserving the original tower and its external stairs. The

chancel In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the Choir (architecture), choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building. It may termi ...

was extended and a south aisle of three bays was added. A stone pulpit was installed, and the box pews were removed. The floor of the nave was laid with tiles by

Mintons Mintons was a major company in Staffordshire pottery, "Europe's leading ceramic factory during the Victorian era", an independent business from 1793 to 1968. It was a leader in ceramic design, working in a number of different ceramic bodies, ...

. A north aisle, similar to the south aisle, was built in 1898. In the 1980s, the Chapter House, an octagonal meeting room, was built adjoining the church on the north-west."History of St Luke's"
St Luke's Church, Endon. Retrieved 22 June 2023. Endon Church sundial

The east window, installed in 1893, is by

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; it is a memorial to George Smith of Bank House. Another window was given as a memorial to the writer

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, born in Endon, and killed in the Great War. There is a single bell, dated 1726. In the grounds of the church is an

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sundial, commissioned from Robert Foster of Ironbridge, commemorating the centenary in 2014 of the Great War. :File:Endon Church sundial.jpg

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Endon, St Luke's Church Grade II listed churches in Staffordshire Church of England church buildings in Staffordshire Diocese of Lichfield

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