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• Inside the church the nave arcades are carried on circular piers.
• The nave arcade was extended into the choir of the chancel.
• The column supports for the nave arcades are of Park Spring stone.
• The nave arcade consists of three bays.
• These include the cement flooring and the use of cast iron columns in the nave arcade.
• The vault of the nave rises steeply in a simple quadripartite form, in harmony with the nave arcade.
• The nave arcades are carried on cruciform piers with an engaged column on each face, sitting on a raised plinth.
• The original steeply-pitched roof was lowered in 1509, the walls over the nave arcades raised and clerestory windows inserted.
• The tower of the church is mainly 15th century, but the nave arcades were built when the Norman style was passing.
• The 14th-century nave was pulled down in the early 16th century when a new nave arcade and the clerestory were built.
• About 1430 nave arcades reconstructed : two of the original pillars of Beer stone were left but the other pillars are of Cornish granite.
• Internally, the church is divided into nave and aisles by a nave arcade of pointed arched openings supported on clustered cast iron columns.
• The nave arcades and chancel arch are chamfered with moulded capitals on polygonal piers, and the nave and chancel ceilings have painted wooden panels.
• St Luke s Church dates from the 12th century but was enlarged in the 14th century with the addition of nave arcades and the tower.
• The present parish church was begun in 1320 and the tower and nave arcades and windows are in the decorated style ( 1290-1330 ).
• Early in the 13th century the north aisle with its nave arcade was added and in the middle of the same century the western tower was built.
• The nave arcades and the greater part of the aisle walls were rebuilt in the 15th century but the 13th century west and south doorways were preserved.
• There was a period of rebuilding and alteration towards the end of the 14th century that saw the addition of a pointed chancel arch and nave arcades.
• Strype records that the church was repaired throughout in 1628, when most of the north wall, the nave arcades and the windows above them were rebuilt.
• The nave arcades are of this period, that on the north being the earlier, but the aisles appear to have been rebuilt and widened in the 14th century.