The Sykes Churches Trail is a tour of East Yorkshire churches which were built, rebuilt or restored by the Sykes family of Sledmere House in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The tour was devised by the East Yorkshire Historic Churches Group and is divided into a southern circuit and a planned northern circuit. [1]
Work on the churches was financed by Sir Tatton Sykes, 4th Baronet (1772–1863) and his son Sir Tatton Sykes, 5th Baronet (1826–1913). The 4th Baronet engaged John Loughborough Pearson to work on churches at Garton on the Wolds, Kirkburn, Bishop Wilton and Hilston in Holderness. The 5th Baronet worked with the architects C. Hodgson Fowler, G.E.Street and Temple Moore. His achievements were far greater than his father's, and unparalleled elsewhere in Britain. He financed work on 17 rural churches between 1866 and 1913.
Southern circuit | Key |
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BW = Bishop Wilton C = Cowlam F = Fridaythorpe Fi = Fimber GW = Garton on the Wolds K = Kirkburn NF = North Frodingham S = Sledmere T = Thixendale W = Wansford We = Wetwang |
These include: [2]
Dedication | Location | Notes | OS Grid square | Image |
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St Elgin | North Frodingham | Restored in stages between 1877 and 1891 by the 5th Baronet. The top part of the Perpendicular tower was designed by Temple Moore. | TA101531 | ![]() |
St Mary | Sledmere | Built in 1893–8, to a design by Temple Moore, at a cost of £60,000. Stained glass by H.V. Milner and Burlison and Grylls. | SE930645 | ![]() |
St Mary | Cowlam | A small medieval church restored in 1852 to a design by Mary E Sykes, daughter of the 4th Baronet. | SE966655 | ![]() |
St Michael | Garton on the Wolds | Dates from around 1120 and was restored in 1856–7 with stained glass by Clayton and Bell to a design of J.L.Pearson. | SE982593 | ![]() |
St Mary | Kirkburn | A Norman church that was restored in 1856–7 when it had a porch added. | SE979550 | ![]() |
St Nicholas | Wetwang | Another church of Norman origin which was restored by both Baronets between 1845 and 1902. | SE930591 | ![]() |
St Mary | Fridaythorpe | Restored in 1902–3 with the addition of a new north aisle designed by C. Hodgson Fowler and stained glass by Burlison and Grylls | SE875591 | ![]() |
St Mary | Thixendale | One of a group of village buildings constructed to designs by G.E.Street in 1868–70. | SE841611 | ![]() |
St Mary | Fimber | Built in 1869–71 in a thirteenth-century style to replace a chapel of ease. | SE895605 | ![]() |
St Edith | Bishop Wilton | Faithfully restored in 1858–9 with lavish internal embellishment to designs of J.L.Pearson. | SE797552 | ![]() |
St Mary | Wansford | Newly built in 1866–8 to designs by G.E.Street. | TA061566 | ![]() |
These include several churches previously in the East Riding which, after boundary changes, are now in North Yorkshire. [3]
Other Sykes churches | Key |
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EH = East Heslerton H = Helperthorpe Hi = Hilston K = Kirby Grindalythe L = Langtoft S = Sherburn W = West Lutton WE = Weaverthorpe |
Dedication | Location | Notes | OS Grid square | Image |
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St Andrew | East Heslerton | Newly built in 1877 to a design by G.E.Street and is now a Grade I listed building. | SE927767 | ![]() |
St Hilda | Sherburn, North Yorkshire | A Grade I listed building restored by the architect C. Hodgson Fowler between 1909 and 1913. | SE959774 | ![]() |
St Andrew | Kirby Grindalythe | Restored in 1872–5 to a design by G.E.Street and after a recent grant of about £175,000 from English Heritage the church is now a Grade II* listed building. [4] | SE903675 | ![]() |
St Mary | West Lutton | Set in the Great Wold Valley and has an atmosphere of peace and wide open spaces. The architect was G. E. Street and the stained glass is by Burlinson and Grylls. [5] | SE930692 | ![]() |
St Peter | Helperthorpe | Stands above the village. The original wooden church was pulled down in 1872 and replaced in 1875. The church and vicarage were designed by architect G.E.Street. [6] | SE952704 | ![]() |
St Andrew | Weaverthorpe | A stone built church with a Norman tower and unusual round staircase which protrudes on the exterior of the tower. It was restored by G.E.Street in 1870–72 and is Grade I listed. [7] | SE966711 | ![]() |
St Peter | Langtoft, East Riding of Yorkshire | This was a restoration, by C. Hodgson Fowler, in 1900–03 when the north aisle was added. [8] | TA007670 | ![]() |
St Margaret | Hilston | Probably of 12th-century origin, it was demolished and rebuilt to designs by J. L. Pearson in 1861–2. This new church suffered extensive bomb damage in 1941 and was rebuilt in 1956–7 to designs by Mr. Francis Johnson of Bridlington, reusing a Norman doorway from the original church and some 19th-century stained glass windows. [9] | TA289335 | ![]() |
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The Yorkshire Wolds are hills in the counties of the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Yorkshire in Northern England. They are the northernmost chalk hills in the UK and within lies the northernmost chalk stream in Europe, the Gypsey Race.
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Cowlam is a hamlet in the Cottam civil parish of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, and in the Yorkshire Wolds. The hamlet is on the B1253 Bridlington to North Grimston road, 17 miles (30 km) north from the county town of Beverley, 2 miles (3 km) east from the village of Sledmere, and 2.5 miles (4 km) north-west from the parish hamlet of Cottam. The hamlet contains eight houses and two farms.
Church End is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the village of North Frodingham on the B1249 road.
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West Lutton is a village in North Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 9 miles (14 km) east from Malton, and within the Yorkshire Wolds. The hamlet of East Lutton is 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the east. The village lies in the Great Wold Valley and the course of the winterbourne stream the Gypsey Race passes through it.
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The Yorkshire Wolds Railway is a preserved railway in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is located on a section of the Malton and Driffield Junction Railway near the village of Fimber. The railway has a short demonstration line and an operational industrial diesel locomotive that provides cab rides to visitors. The railway has plans for expansion, work on which has been underway since April 2019.
The Church of St Michael and all Angels, Garton on the Wolds, in the East Riding of Yorkshire is a church of medieval origins that was built c.1132 for the prior of Kirkham Abbey. Long connected to the Sykes family of Sledmere, Sir Tatton Sykes, 4th Baronet engaged John Loughborough Pearson to undertake a major reconstruction of the building in 1856–1857. Sykes son, the fifth baronet, employed George Edmund Street to design a series of murals for interior decoration, depicting a range of bible stories. The murals, "dirty and decaying" when Nikolaus Pevsner recorded the church in his 1972 East Yorkshire volume for the Buildings of England series, were restored in 1985–1991 in Pevsner's memory by the Pevsner Memorial Trust.