page_title: St Luke's Church, Hodnet
section_title: Exterior
hierarchical_section_title: St Luke's Church, Hodnet / Architecture / Exterior
caption_attribution_description: English: St Luke's Church, Hodnet, Shropshire. Viewed from the north-west.
context_page_description: St Luke's Church is in the village of Hodnet, Shropshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Hodnet, the archdeaconry of Salop, and the diocese of Lichfield. Its benefice is united with those of The Epiphany, Peplow, and St Luke, Weston under Redcastle. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. It overlooks the park of Hodnet Hall.
context_section_description: St Luke's is constructed in sandstone with tile roofs.  Its plan consists of a five-bay nave and south aisle, a two-bay chancel with a south chapel, a south porch and vestry, a chapel to the north of the chancel, and a west tower.  The tower is entirely octagonal, from the bottom to the top, and is the only tower of this type in Shropshire.  The tower is in three stages, with shallow buttresses on the angles, slit windows in the lower stages, two-light bell openings in Decorated style, and a battlemented parapet.  On the northeast and southeast sides of the tower are clock faces.  The nave, aisle, and north chapel each have separate roofs, resulting in an east end of three gables, an unusual arrangement in the county.  Along the south side of the church are two windows above which are blocked Norman-style arches.  The east window, dating from 1846–47, has five lights and is in Decorated style.
caption: The octagonal tower of the church
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