Church of St John the Baptist, Flookburgh

The parish of Flookburgh, Cark-in-Cartmel, is to be provided with a new church. Plans of the proposed structure have been prepared by Messrs Austin and Paley, architects, of Lancaster. [Builder 27 March 1897 page 303]

PROPOSED CHURCH FLOOKBURGH - Messrs Austin and Paley of Lancaster will be the architects of the proposed structure for which they have prepared plans. [Builder 27 November 1897 page 451]

FLOOKBURGH CHURCH is in the Early English style. It will consist of nave, 69 feet long by 22 feet l0 inches wide; tower at west end, 26 feet 6 inches by 25 feet externally, and 53feet 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 pitch pine and seats of oak, wood block floors, and passages flagged chancel tiled. Contractors: Masonry, A. Blair, of Allithwaite; carpentry and joinery, Messrs Gradwell and Co, of Barrow‑in‑Furness; slater, J Chippendale, of Grange; plumber and glazier, A Moorhouse, of Kirkby Lonsdale. The architects are Messrs. Austin and Paley, of Lancaster, who are doing the work for Mr Victor Cavendish, MP, of Holker Hall. [Building News 28 Jan 1898 p127]

NEW CHURCH, FLOOKBURGH, LANCASHIRE - On the 20th ult. the Bishop of Carlisle consecrated the Church of St. John the Baptist. Flookburgh. The church, which has cost about £11,000, takes the place of an old chapel-at-ease erected in 1777. The new church is Transitional in style, built of stone from a quarry on the Holker estate. The architects were Messrs' Paley & Austin. The organ is by Messrs. Brindley & Foster, Sheffield, and the four bells were cast by Messrs. Taylor, of Loughborough. [Builder 3 November 1900 page 396]

Reference    Builder 27 March 1897 page 303
Reference    Builder 27 November 1897 page 451
Reference    Building News 28 January 1898 page 127
Reference    Builder 3 November 1900 page 396