St Luke's is a Christian family of people who live right across York but who worship and serve God in the Burton Stone Lane area. Our 'mission statement' is on the home page of this site, and the words on our logo sum up what we want to be: St Luke's - praying - caring - sharing.
Our Sunday Worship is built around two services each week:
There's also a service of Holy Communion at 7.00pm on a Tuesday, usually in the Lady Chapel at the side of the church.
Click 'Services and activities' on the menu to the left of this screen for details of all the other regular events.
The Parish of St Luke the Evangelist, York, lies about one mile north of the ancient city centre. It is home to about 5,500 people, mainly living in streets built from the mid 19th to the mid 20th centuries.
Originally part of the Parish of St Olave, the Burton Stone Lane area was first served by a 'tin tabernacle' on Shipton Street in late Victorian times. In 1900, George Faber MP laid the foundation stone for a new church building on the corner of Burton Stone Lane and Shipton Street, to the design of renowned York architect Walter Brierley. We have a picture of the occasion (left) - click it to learn more about it.
Ten years later, the Archbishop of York laid a second stone to mark the start of work on the nave, which opened for worship in 1911 with temporary brick side walls where two additional aisles were to be added.
That job is still outstanding. St Luke's as we know it today is a strange-looking building from outside, but bright and uplifting inside. Light floods through the huge rectangular clear glass windows of the nave, so that worshipping in St Luke's connects you to the airy beauty of the completed chancel, and to God's world directly outside.
In 1930 St Luke's finally left its mother church of St Olave, Marygate, to become a parish in its own right. With one or two adjustments over the years, that is how it remains: bordered roughly by the York to Scarborough railway on one side and the back of the houses on the south side of Kingsway North on the other, and stretching from the east side of Bootham out to the edge of Bootham Stray. St Olave's Grove, Bootham Crescent and Grosvenor Terrace aren't in the Parish, but the entire length of Burton Stone Lane is.
Today the Parish contains Clifton Green Primary School, Burton Stone Community Centre, senior citizens' houses at Colton Cottages and Fothergil Homes, a bustling group of shops and businesses, and of course York City Football Club's Bootham Crescent ground (or KitKat Crescent, as we're now supposed to call it!).