St Luke’s Church LEP

St Luke’s is a Victorian building which has been extensively updated. It was built in 1884 to serve the rather rural area of ‘New Chesterton’, which was at that time surrounded by fields, allotments and orchards all the way out to Histon. St Luke’s continued to serve the rapidly developing area as the separate new parish of St Luke’s Chesterton. A collection of historical and personal memories of those first one hundred years can be read here. In 1982 St Luke’s Chesterton joined the neighbouring parish of St Giles’ Cambridge and the Parish of the Ascension was formed.

At the end of the 1980’s the neighbouring Victoria Road Congregational Church building was demolished, and that congregation started to use St Luke’s Church building regularly. Since 2005, the church community has been formed by the uniting of congregations from the Church of England and the United Reformed Church traditions into a Local Ecumenical Partnership (LEP), worshipping together.

After extensive refurbishment the Church building now comprises four community rooms in addition to the Church space. The community rooms are known as St Luke’s Church Centre.

The Old School building that has stood on the site since the earlly 20th century, has been completely refurbished and now houses the Ascension Parish Office and offers further rooms for use by the community.