Simon KnottOur Lady and St Joseph, Carlisle, c1900, for #SteepleSaturday. An architect's drawing in the Builder in 1870 shows a much grander church with a spire, but perhaps the money required resulted in a more modest yet harmonious design.
2/3 Our Lady and St Joseph, Carlisle looking east, by Dunn & Hansom.Looking it up, which I should have done before, I find it was completed in 1893, and the interior speaks of those two decades around the turn of the century.
3/3 The shrine of Blessed Christopher Robinson, an ordained priest executed at Carlisle in 1597 for celebrating Mass and refusing to conform to the Church of England.
