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St Luke

St Luke

Brislington

Bristol

C15, N arcade and aisle remodelled 1819, E end 1874 by B Ferrey.

Architectural Features

S aisle, relatively unrestored, has C15 offset buttresses and moulded plinth

Plinth continues around C15 porch, with crocketed pinnacles surmounting clasped diagonal buttresses: late C19 doors set in pointed moulded arch with engaged shafts to inner order and crocketed ogee canopy to hoodmould

tall C15 three-light window with cinquefoil ogee heads and restored jamb.

Fine 3-stage W tower with string courses and diagonal offset buttresses surmounted by crocketed pinnacles: late C19 west door set in pointed moulded arch flanked by diagonally-set shafts with worn angels holding shields

belfry has similar 2-light louvred windows and figures of a couple in hollow-chamfered ogee-headed niche to S

gargoyles to cornice beneath crenellated parapet with blind panel tracery and figures set in fine ogee-headed canopies

late C19 archway with ogee tracery and C15 archway with panelled east intrados and inner arch of 3 orders with bell capitals to engaged shafts to S chapel.

FITTINGS: square font on cushion capital and thick, round shaft.

Octagonal oak Jacobean pulpit, with classical panels.

MEMORIALS: tomb slab to Thomas Newman, d. 1542, wall plaques to George Braikenridge, d. 1856 and his family, and 3 urn plaques to the Ireland family from 1805.