THE NORMAN NICHOLSON HOUSE PROJECT
St Luke's Church
Before the church was built, religious services were held in the Infants and Girls school which was near the beach and built in 1874. St Luke’s, finished in 1891, was built as a Chapel of Ease to St George’s Church, Millom, in the Early English style from blue slate with red sandstone dressings. Legend tells that local people bought a ‘brick-a-week’ to fund the building of the church at a cost of £1500. St Luke’s also owns a nearby Institute which is still used by community groups.
The Parsonage for the curate was directly opposite the church in St Luke’s Road but has since been demolished and a modern house built in its place.
The War Memorial was unveiled in September 1920 by Colonel D J Mason of
Workington. The following year, a new bell for the church was also unveiled as part of the memorial scheme.
St Luke’s is C of E but many of the families moving into the village in the late 1800s were from Cornwall and Devon. They brought their own religion with them and were predominantly Methodists, so they built a Bible Christian Chapel near the Harbour Hotel and a Primitive Methodist Chapel on Poolside. This has since been demolished and the site is now a car park.
Nicholson wrote the hymn, ‘Come Workers for the Lord’, after Josefina de Vasconcellos asked him to write one for a service at St Martin-in-the-Fields in London, in connection with an exhibition of craftwork by Approved School pupils.
Before the church was built, religious services were held in the Infants and Girls school which was near the beach and built in 1874. St Luke’s, finished in 1891, was built as a Chapel of Ease to St George’s Church, Millom, in the Early English style from blue slate with red sandstone dressings. Legend tells that local people bought a ‘brick-a-week’ to fund the building of the church at a cost of £1500. St Luke’s also owns a nearby Institute which is still used by community groups.
The Parsonage for the curate was directly opposite the church in St Luke’s Road but has since been demolished and a modern house built in its place.
The War Memorial was unveiled in September 1920 by Colonel D J Mason of
Workington. The following year, a new bell for the church was also unveiled as part of the memorial scheme.
St Luke’s is C of E but many of the families moving into the village in the late 1800s were from Cornwall and Devon. They brought their own religion with them and were predominantly Methodists, so they built a Bible Christian Chapel near the Harbour Hotel and a Primitive Methodist Chapel on Poolside. This has since been demolished and the site is now a car park.
Nicholson wrote the hymn, ‘Come Workers for the Lord’, after Josefina de Vasconcellos asked him to write one for a service at St Martin-in-the-Fields in London, in connection with an exhibition of craftwork by Approved School pupils.