St Luke's Church, Preston

St Luke’s Church stands in St Luke’s Place in Preston, Lancashire. Built in 1858–59 by E. H. Shellard, it was designed to seat 800 worshippers. The church is constructed from sandstone with a slate roof in Early English style. Its most striking feature is a five-stage tower topped by a broach spire with lucarnes. Gargoyles shaped as angels and octagonal pinnacles crown the tower’s corners. The church’s architecture includes a six-bay nave with clerestory and north and south aisles. A chancel with an organ-house and vestry extends from the east end. Buttresses separate the aisle bays, each containing pairs of lancet windows. The clerestory has circular windows, while the west end features tall lancets, smaller lancets, and a wheel window. A porch is set in the second bay of the north aisle. Inside, the church now forms part of a residential conversion into flats. The exterior retains its original lancet windows, triple arcades, and Geometrical tracery. The tower’s stair turret and bell openings with louvres remain visible. The stepped triple lancet window at the east end of the chancel adds to the building’s Gothic Revival character.