Shireoaks St Luke

Archaeology

Core fabric 1861-3

Spire demolished 1973

Significant Interior Features

Open timber roof 1862/3; chancel ceiling boarded and painted with blue and red stencil decoration

Ground-floor ceiling to tower has painted boards in circular barbers’-pole decoration with embellishment in blue, white, and red

Alabaster reredos and sedilia added 1865

Marble frieze behind altar

Timbers and roofs

	Nave	Chancel	Tower
Main	Open timber 1862/3	Boarded 1862/3	Boarded panels 1862/3
S.Aisle	1862/3
N.Aisle	1862/3
Other principal
Other timbers

Bellframe

Wooden frame, probably of 1863, extended and considerably modified. Bells rehung in 1929.

Not scheduled for preservation Grade 4.

Walls

	Nave	Chancel	Tower
Plaster covering & date
Potential for wall paintings

Excavations and potential for survival of below-ground archaeology

No archaeological excavation work recorded.

The church was constructed from new in 1861. The use of the site prior to construction has not been researched sufficiently to allow an assessment of pre-church archaeological potential.

The overall potential for the survival of below-ground archaeology in the churchyard is considered unknown and below the present interior floors is considered to be low.

Exterior:Unknown.

Interior:1861/2 construction layers.