Merle Terrace, Church of St Luke
Merle Terrace, Church of St Luke
HER Number
7157
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Merle Terrace, Church of St Luke
Place
Pallion
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Parish Church
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Parish church. 1874. By JP Pritchett. Thin uneven courses of rubble with ashlar dressings and red sandstone nookshafts. Stone slate roof. High chancel, 5-bay nave, north porch and north-east tower. Late C13 style. Geometric tracery to east window. Spire taken down 1982.
Interior – high chancel arch. Scissor-braced roof on moulded corbels. Painted stone reredos. Octagonal stone font with high relief panels of evangelists. Pews panelled with shaped ends. High quality glass in east window shows Christ in Glory with Passion and Crucifixion, commemorating Martha Short, wife of George Short (shipbuilder) d.1893. West window in north aisle by Powell & Bros. Leeds, to George Short, d.1863, in medieval style showing Noah and Ark, and St. Joseph the carpenter. LISTED GRADE 2
Interior – high chancel arch. Scissor-braced roof on moulded corbels. Painted stone reredos. Octagonal stone font with high relief panels of evangelists. Pews panelled with shaped ends. High quality glass in east window shows Christ in Glory with Passion and Crucifixion, commemorating Martha Short, wife of George Short (shipbuilder) d.1893. West window in north aisle by Powell & Bros. Leeds, to George Short, d.1863, in medieval style showing Noah and Ark, and St. Joseph the carpenter. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
437580
Northing
557370
Grid Reference
NZ437580557370
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/4/140; T. Corfe, 1983, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, p 23; N. Pevsner (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson), 1985, The Buildings of England - County Durham, page 463