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	placename:-	St Luke's Church
	other name:-	Lowick Church
	locality:-	Lowick
	parish	Lowick parish, once in Lancashire
	county:-	Cumbria
		church
	coordinates:-	SD28988606
	10Km square:-	SD28
	References	: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5
	1Km square	SD2886
		St Luke's Church -- Lowick -- Lowick -- Cumbria / -- 28.5.2010
		St Luke's Church -- Lowick -- Lowick -- Cumbria / -- 2.2.2007
	old map:-	Nurse 1918
		Map, The Diocese of Carlisle, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire North of the Sands, now Cumbria, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Rev Euston J Nurse, published by Charles Thurnam and Sons, 11 English Street, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1918 and 2nd edn 1939.
		LOWICK
		United benefice with Blawith.
	site name:-	Ulverston Rural Deanery
	site name:-	Archdeaconry of Furness
	site name:-	Diocese of Carlisle
	date:-	1939
	period:-	1930s
	old map:-	Garnett 1850s-60s H
		Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
		cross, a church
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		CHURCH OF ST LUKE / / / LOWICK / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75873 / SD2899686075
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Church. 1865. Coursed slate rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Nave, chancel with south organ loft and north vestry, and west tower. Coped gables. 5-bay nave has lancet windows alternating with weathered buttresses. 2-bay chancel has gabled organ loft with buttresses, quatrofoil south window and early C19 wall sundial from previous church to gable; east triplet of lancets on will source and flanking buttresses; north vestry under catslide roof has straight-headed window. West tower has weathered angle buttresses and lancets; qabled south porch; paired louvred bell openings, embattled parapet and pyramidal roof with weather vane; stair turret to north side. Interior scissor rafter roof. Double-chamfered chancel arch dies into jambs. Some stained glass, most windows have leaded glazing in decorative patterns. Georgian royal arms.
	placename:-	Church of St Luke
	district:-	South Lakeland
		listed building
	coordinates:-	SD28998607
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	source:-	Dove 2009
	diocese:-	Carlisle Diocese
	coordinates:-	SD290861
	coordinates:-	54d 15.9m N 3d 5.5m W
	locality:-	Lowick
	Dove data	number of bells: 3 weight of tenor: 2 cwt 0 qtr 0 lb (about 220lbs) Steel bells, cast by Vickers Sons and Co, 2 and 3 in 1885, no date for 1. Dove 2009
		Data courtesy of the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers
		photographs
		St Luke's Church -- Lowick -- Lowick -- Cumbria / -- 2.2.2007
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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