The parish of St Luke was formed in 1853, cut from the large parish of St Mary’s, to serve the Newtown area of Southampton. The church was erected in 1852-53. It was built in a straightforward neo-Gothic style by architect John Elliott of Chichester and is situated on the south corner of Onslow Road and Cranbury Avenue. It was enlarged in 1860 and a chancel was added in 1873 by the noted church architect James Piers St Aubyn. In 1983 the church was sold and converted into a Sikh temple (clipping 2 below). Before the sale, a window depicting the celebrated Victorian General Gordon, who worshipped at the church when in Southampton, was taken down and given to the Gordon Boys School near Woking (clipping 3 and 4 below).
St Luke's Church
Photograph, c.1950
St Luke's Church×
St Luke's Church
Photograph, c.2005
St Luke's Church×
Newspaper clippings:
- 1. Church of St Luke - (SDE 18/09/1953)
- 2. Sale agreed - (SDE 25/02/1983)
- 3. Window on the unwise mayor - (SDE 29/04/1983)
- 4. Gordon windows leaves St Luke's - (SDE 04/07/1983)
Further reading:
St Luke’s, 1853-1953: Portrait of a Parish. (HS/j)
History of Southampton, by Rev. J. S. Davies, p350-351. (HS/h)
Buildings of England: Hampshire and the I.O.W., by Nikolaus Pevsner and David Lloyd, p520. (H/i)
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