St Luke's Church, Endon

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St Luke’s Church in Endon, Staffordshire, England, is an Anglican church in the Diocese of Lichfield. The current building dates from around 1720 but was rebuilt in the 1870s, and it is Grade II listed.

The original church (built 1719–1721) had a nave with a west tower and two galleries, one reached from stairs on the tower. It was a chapel of ease for Leek’s parish church, St Edward’s. In 1865 Endon parish was created (including Longsdon until 1889).

Beardmore of Hanley rebuilt the church in the 1870s, preserving the tower and its external stairs. The chancel was extended and a south aisle of three bays was added. A stone pulpit replaced the box pews, and Mintons tiles covered the nave floor. A north aisle was added in 1898.

In the 1980s, the Chapter House, an octagonal meeting room, was built on the north-west side. The east window (1893) by Edward Burne-Jones is a memorial to George Smith of Bank House. Another window commemorates the writer T. E. Hulme, born in Endon and killed in the Great War. The church has a single bell, dated 1726. In the churchyard is an armillary sundial by Robert Foster of Ironbridge, made to mark the Great War centenary in 2014.

Website: endonstlukes.org.uk