St Luke’s with All Saints, Weaste
St Luke’s Church is Grade 2* listed, which puts it among the top 10% of buildings in
England.  Prominent because of its position and its slender, continental-style spire, it
stands on a small green hill beside Liverpool Street – and is known locally as “the church
on the hill”.  About 45 people worship there on Sunday mornings, and most newcomers
find them friendly and welcoming.  Inside the church’s most spectacular feature is the
decorated roof over the chancel, and it is
blessed with a fine organ.  Just down the hill
is the Parish Hall, which is home to a huge
range of community groups and activities –
and to cups of tea after every service!  
St Luke’s Primary School, highly praised
for its academic standards and caring ethos,
is on Eccles New Road, just across the
motorway.

Address -    Corner Liverpool Street /
Derby Road, Salford, M6 5YD  

Where are we? - click here for a map

Contact details
Vicar :- Rev Dr Keith Archer
Number :- 0161-736 5819
E-mail address :-  keitharcher@hotmail.co.uk

Ordained Local Minister  :-  Rev Janet Whittingham
Number :- 0161-736-5878
E-mail address :-    reverend.whittingham@fsmail.net

Service times -       Sunday 10.30am:   Parish Communion or Family & Parade Service
Wednesday 10.00am:   Holy Communion
Third Tuesday of each month, 7.00pm:   Taizé Evening Prayer

Activities        
St Luke’s CE Primary School – Tel: 0161 736 3455
Rainbows and Brownies – Tel: 0161 736 6440
Beavers, Cubs & Scouts – Tel: 0161 6283
Tea Dance every Tuesday – Tel: 0161 736 5129
Ladies’ Guild – Tel: 0161 6825
St Luke’s Arts & Drama Society (SLADS) – Tel: 0161 736 6893
Wednesday Drop-in – Tel: 0161 281 7423
Occasional concerts and exhibitions

How to book baptism/ weddings
Vicar’s ‘surgery’: Wednesdays 6.30–7.30 pm in the Parish Hall

Parish Hall bookings:
Contact Christine Allmark, Hall Warden, on 0161 281 7423

A brief history of the building:
The church, designed by the famous Victorian architect George Gilbert Scott, was
opened in 1865.  In 1878 a chapel in memory of Edward Tootal, one of the early
benefactors, was added to the East end of the north aisle.  The church was redecorated
and reordered in the 1920s, but since then it has remained largely unchanged.  It is
richly endowed with stained glass, and the windows in the Tootal Chapel (now known as
the Lady Chapel) are undoubtedly the best.  They are fine examples of the early work of
Charles Eamer Kempe, and display exceptional vitality and originality of design.  Equally
rich are the church’s links with history.  There are visible signs of this in the memorial
plaques on the walls to local heroes of the South African War and First World War and
the remarkable War Memorial built into one of the window bays on the south wall.  There
is, however, no visible sign of the part the church played in a life that has had an
enormous impact on today’s world.  In 1879 a local girl called Emmeline Goulden married
reforming lawyer Richard Marsden Pankhurst at St Luke’s – and became the famous Mrs
Pankhurst.