Church of Saint Mary and Saint Ethelbert

Heritage listing

Details LUCKINGTON CHURCH ROAD ST 88 SW (north side) 2/217 Church of Saint Mary and Saint Ethelbert 28.10.59 GV 1 Anglican parish church, c1200 to C15, restored and chancel rebuilt 1892 by A.W. Blomfield, rubble stone with stone slate roofs and coped gables. Nave, south aisle, north and south porches, north tower, chancel with north vestry and south east chapel. Nave and aisle have C15 fenestration, nave has tall 3-light pointed west window and north side flat-headed 3-light and 2-light with hoodmoulds each side of moulded pointed C14 north door in plain C18 gabled porch. South aisle has 4-centred 3-light west window, 2- light and 3-light flat-headed windows with hoodmoulds flanking ashlar gabled porch with moulded pointed arch. Pointed arched inner doorway with C19 door. South east chapel is 1872 reconstruction of C13 original with two pairs of lancets to south side, buttresses, rectangular window to right with hoodmoulds, and east end 3-light stepped lancets. Chancel of 1872 is ashlar with one south lancet, 3-light east window, one north lancet and added 1917 flat-roofed vestry. Four-stage north tower, C13 with bottom stage north paired lancets, second stage small lancet loops to north and east and third stage blocked 2-light bell-openings, with plate-traceried quatrefoil heads, raised angle piers and corbel table. Top bell-stage is C15 with 2-light Perpendicular openings and hoodmoulds linked by dripcourse. Battlements and truncated angle pinnacles. Interior: much restored 3-bay arcade of c1200 with circular piers, bases with spurs and trumpet-scallop caps with circular abaci. Two-chamfer arches. C15 arch-braced collar rafter roofs to nave and aisle. Painted texts of 1663 on north and south walls. Nave has two low niches in north east angle, perhaps a former reredos,

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.