St Andrew's Church, Blubberhouses
Lamb designed four other churches in Yorkshire - at Sowerby, Bagby, Healey and Aldwark, all in the vicinity of another branch of the Frankland family at Thirkleby, near Thirsk. All have a very original Modern Gothic style said to be based on components of Anglo-Venetian and early French. Lady Russell endowed the church with £30 per annum and the work was supervised by her estate manager, John Gill. It was consecrated on the 24 September 1856. The old pews, each of which bear Roman numerals, are said to have come from the old church at Thirkleby. In the late nineteenth century the church at Blubberhouses was apparently well attended by the reservoir navvies who also started a Sunday School. In the chancel there is a tablet in memory of John Gill who died in 1864 aged 66. The tablet was placed there by Lady Frankland Russell ‘in memory of his valuable services’. There is also a memorial to Mary Ann Hall Galloway of Skaife Hall, Blubberhouses who died on the 11 April, 1922 aged 82.
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