1900 – St John the Baptist’s Church, Flookburgh, Cumbria

Funded by local landowner Victor Cavendish, it replaced an older church built in 1777 on a site nearby. The foundation stone was laid in 1897 by Lady Evelyn Cavendish, and the church was consecrated in 1900. Its original estimated cost was £8,000, but it finally cost £12,000. Grade II* listed.

Described by The Building News, “Is in the Early English style. It will consist of nave, 65ft. long by 22ft. 10in. wide; tower at west end, 26ft. Gin. by 25ft. externally, and 53ft high, top of parapet. North and south aisles and organ transepts ; at the east end of chancel will be a semicircular apse with stone groined roof. Advantage has been taken of the sloping site to form a vestry and heating cell under the apse and transept ; access to chancel by north and south tower doors. Materials are for walling of local stone with Prudham dressings, in broken courses inside and out, except inside of apse, which will be ashlar. Roofs covered with stone slates, except aisles and apse, of lead. Roofs of pitchpine and seats of oak, wood block floors, and passages flagged ; chancel tiled. “