Sykes Churches Trail
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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
St Elgins Church North Frodingham
St Mary Cowlam
St Mary, Kirkburn
St Mary's Church, Fridaythorpe
Sir Tatton Sykes, 5th Baronet was an English landowner, racehorse breeder, church-builder and eccentric; Sykes believed in a constant body temperature and would wear up to six coats at once, discardin
Sykes Churches Trail
…into a southern circuit and a planned northern circuit. 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…
Bust of Sir Tatton Sykes in St Nicholas' Church, Wetwang