Past Projects
St Luke's, Blakenhall
St. Luke's Church, Blakenhall
St Luke’s Blakenhall is a Grade II* listed building in a relatively deprived part of Wolverhampton. The work of architect GT Robinson in Gothic Revival style and described by Pevsner thus;
“The church is furiously unruly. Red brick with yellow brick and black brick. South west steeple with a highly fanciful spire. Windows with plate tracery. But the clerestory windows are spherical triangles filled with roundels. Polygonal chancel. Inside, the piers of iron, thin and doubled – longitudinally – not transversely. Who in the name of reason would do that?”
It was closed for worship when repair and heating costs became too high, and the church community decamped to the neighbouring school. It was sold to Church Converts for notional consideration after extensive repair works were completed to the spire, where tiles has started to fall off.
Planning and listed building consents were obtained for conversion of the church into an antiques centre, which required minimal intervention other than removal of the pews and other furniture, renewal of services, and extensive eradication of dry rot. After two years of trade however, the building was sold to an American evangelical Christian church for conversion back into a place of worship.
From Closure to New Purpose
Explore our photo galleries of St. Luke’s Church in Blakenhall. From closure to it’s reopening as an Antiques Centre.
Before Reopening
Reopening
