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This chapel was built in 1864 and extended in 1884.

St Peter & St Paul church is a gem of peace and tranquillity full of history.

The name 'Fiskerton' means Fisherman's town and Fiskerton was both a fishing and farming village until the drainage of the Witham Fens after 1782.

The Polish Air Force and Royal Air Force served nearby at the former RAF Faldingworth and this is commemorated throughout the church including in a stained glass window and the porch gates.

Previous to this church stood The Old Mission Church, an iron building formerly situated in Burton by Lincoln having 'recently been used as an infant school and purchased for £30 in 1897'.

St Wulfram's slender and graceful spire, distinctively flanked by its four spirelets, would very likely have been the tallest in England when it was built in 1280-1300, and it is still one of the most elegant.

The current Grade II Listed grey stone church, dedicated to St John the Baptist, was designed during the Georgian era by Thomas Berry of Gainsborough between 1794-95 after the previous 14th century church fell.

In the centre of the village with fabulous views of the Coniston Old Man which overlooks Coniston Water, the church hails two local heroes in John Ruskin and Dinald Campbell.

Memorial, stained glass window and stone cross, in memory of five sons from this hamlet, who all died in The Great War.

Set close to Bowes Castle and surrounded by trees the small, low church, dating from the 12th century is easy to miss, but is well worth a visit.

The church is 13th to 15th century, with a small piece of medieval glass and notable 20th century stained glass by Theodora Salusbury.