Saint Luke's Church, Church Lane, Ferryhill (Ferryhill)
Interior shows painted plaster above boarded dado; wall-posts (stone-corbelled, and longer between windows), support arch-braced collars with struts to principal rafters, and short king posts. Double-chamfered chancel arch, the inner on nail-head-patterned shafts on head corbels. Rerearches to chancel windows. 1952 west gallery with organ. Glass includes 1953 L.C. Evetts east windows. Gothic-style carved wood altar with symbols of Passion in front panels. Octagonal stone pedestal font with single blank shield, and wrought iron straps on wood cover. Roll-moulded squared ends on pews. South nave wall monument to members of Tiplady family, died 1789 and 1809: marble with pilasters and fret panel below cornice; transferred from earlier chapel.
Building contains a First World War memorial plaque associated with the rood screen close to the altar, and a commemorative WW2 stained glass window. (1-2).
Victorian (1837 to 1901)
First World War (1914 to 1918)
Second World War (1939 to 1945)
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