Later Additions & Alterations

A stained-glass window was placed in the North wall of the church in 1899 as a memorial to John and Frances Morton of Skelsmergh Hall.

A war memorial to parishioners lost in the Great War was installed in 1919. It is a wooden crucifix with small engraved brass plates giving the name of each man and it is located at the western end of the north wall. Additional plates were made after the World War 1939 – 1945.  An embossed copper plate was fixed to the wall close to the war memorial which contains the memorable lines:

“They shall not grow old
as we that are left grow old,
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun
and in the morning -
We shall remember them.”

A stained-glass window was placed in the South wall of the church in 1936 as a memorial to Frederick and Margaret Glenn Frodsham.

An electric organ blower for the organ was donated by Mary Jane Leighton as a memorial to her brother John James Winn who had been a Church Warden and Chorister for many years. It was manufactured by Rushworth & Draper Ltd of Liverpool, and dedicated on September 22 1947, ending 74 years of hand pumping.

The churchyard was extended in 1950 with a piece of land to the southeast of the church, across the lane leading to the Vicarage. It was consecrated by the Bishop of Carlisle on October 6 1950 and a stone tablet records that it was dedicated to the first Vicar of the parish, Rev George Reade.

A new inner porch was constructed in November  1955 at the south-western corner of the church. The doorway at the western end of the church was removed and the opening blocked up, a window was installed to give an attractive view over the Fells. This work eliminated the draughts that had troubled the congregation since the church opened in 1871.