Architectural Features
C14 tower and transepts, tower having tall deeply splayed 2-light pointed belfry openings with Decorated tracery
upper part removed 1563 and replaced by crenellated coronet with crocketed pinnacles.
Perpendicular Gothic nave by Foster appears bulky against medieval crossing.
C14 crossing arches die into responds of piers.
Some medieval painting survives on nave arch.
Highly polished encaustic tile to stepped chancel floor.
Many other fine memorials including brasses at west end of nave.
oval brass plate below to Jacobus Bradley, S.T.P., died 1762 aged 70 has latin inscription - this formerly being attached to Bradley's monument in the churchyard (q.v.).
Several good monuments reset high in nave between clerestory windows.
Timber rood screen by F.C. Eden of 1920 was intended to be painted.
Very complete stained glass: east window and south rose window by Hardman.
The winged ox relates to the attention St Luke's gospel gives to the sacrificial aspects of Christ's life.
Church at Minchinhampton originally given by William the Conqueror to the Abbaye aux Dames, Caen, passing to the nuns of Syon Abbey in 1415.
A major rebuilding occurred in C12 but no trace of this survives.