Been meaning to fly this one for ages, finally got around to it.
Saint Luke’s Church is located between Parliament Street and Stockbrook Street in Derby.
The church was erected between 1868 and 1871 to designs by the architects Henry Isaac Stevens and Frederick Josias Robinson. The church was consecrated on Saturday 24 June 1871 by the Bishop of Lichfield George Selwyn. St Luke’s is a traditional Anglo-Catholic church.
The tower is is 170ft tall and offers a great view over the city, its quite a unique tower design known as a Saddleback roof.
The Stockbrook area of Derby has changed a lot since this church was built, A number of building clubs acquired the land – some of which was bought from the Gisborne and Drewry families and more from the owners of villas on the west side of Uttoxeter New Road – and had laid out the streets by 1850, with building continuing throughout that decade.
Over the following 25 years to the west, and south of Stockbrook Lane. The houses were interspersed with several mills and workshops, the former producing silk goods, narrow tapes or webbing.
To feed the insatiable demand for brick caused by this sudden expansion, there was also a large brick works in the centre of the area, opened up by the contractor Edward de Sautoy, which not only provided building materials, but much employment.
small Victorian terraced houses in the Stockbrook Street area were pulled down in the 1970s.
There used to be several tall chimneys in this area which has all since been demolished, some of the mill buildings remain which have been repurposed for other uses.
