St. Michael and all Angels

Extract from The Times, August 10th 2013...........


'This year is the centenary of the death of Sir Tatton Sykes, fifth baronet, of Sledmere - also in the Wolds. An exhibition at Sledmere House tells of how between 1856 and 1913 he and his father, inspired by the Oxford Movement, built or restored 18 local churches, using some of the greatest ecclesiastical architects, including Pearson, Street, and Temple Moore. It was perhaps the greatest private ecclesiastical building programme in English history, leaving an important group of small rural churches. They include St Michael and All Angels, Garton on the Wolds, with its Victorian wall paintings; St Andrew's, Weaverthorpe, a superb Norman church with rich furnishings; St Mary's at Sledmere, with its lavish Anglo-Catholic stained glass, and St Edith at Bishop Wilton, with floor mosaics modelled on those of St Peter's, Rome.'