Soon afterwards Colin Stannard was in correspondence with Alfred Wainwright who replied on 7th June 1955 thanking him for a photograph of the Church and saying:
"I shall probably exercise a little licence with the foreground. I shan't `plant' any more trees there though I should like to, but I shall want to `remove' the enclosing walls and the harsh macadam and show the building sprouting up from grass and shrubs. The sky above the roof of the nave is the obvious place for the lettering.... End of July at the latest -
Which was kept.
Alfred Wainwright sent his drawing to the vicar on 15th July 1955 with a covering letter:
"See what a pretty church you'd have had if you'd built it in a park!
There is no question of a fee for doing this for you, but the work has taken fourteen hours of time I could little afford. It seems reasonable therefore, that I should now ask you to spend fourteen minutes in finding six positive subscribers for my book. It occurs to me that since your Magazine Committee were so eager to requisition my services they should be your first approach!"
Forty three years later Colin Stannard, having left Barrow in 1964, eventually becoming Archdeacon of Carlisle, pointed out that the book referred to was the very first of the Wainwright Guides -
