Church of St Luke and All Saints

Heritage listing

Details DARRINGTON CHURCH LANE SE42SE (north end 5/14 Church of St. Luke 11.12.1967 and All Saints GV I Parish church. Norman tower, C13 aisles and chancel (altered in C14 and C15), with C14 north chapel (probably a rebuilding at that time); restored in 1880 by A. W. Blomfield. White magnesian limestone (mostly squared, but some rubble); slate roofs. Aisled nave embracing west tower, south porch, chancel with north chapel. The stout, square, 3-stage west tower, embraced by the aisles up to the 2nd stage, has a moulded 4-centred arched west doorway and a Perpendicular 3-light window above; at the 2nd stage, the south side has a clock face and the north side has a small Norman window of 2 round-headed lights (now glazed) with a colonnette; the 3rd stage, which is set back, has Norman belfry windows in the south and east sides, each of 2 round-headed louvred lights with a colonnette, an altered or inserted belfry window of 2 pointed lights in the west side; and an embattled parapet with restored corner pinnacles. The short nave has full-height aisles embracing the tower, the roof on the south side being continuous; early features of the aisles include a small lancet at the west end of both and, in the north aisle, rubble masonry to half-height, with a blocked round-headed north doorway, coupled lancets to the east and a single lancet to the west. The 4-bay south aisle has a gabled porch to the 2nd bay, with a chamfered 2-centred arched outer doorway, a cusped niche in the apex, kneelers carrying tall slender pinnacles, an apex cross, and buttressed side walls with low parapets; a stone roof on 2 transverse arches, and an inner doorway with 3 orders of shafts and deeply moulded arch. The other bays of this aisle have large C14 arched 3-light windows with reticulated tracery

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.