 Later in this period he built St Mary's Church, at Pulford in 1881–84 for the Duke of Westminster and in 1882–85 St Werburgh's New Church at Warburton for Rowland Egerton-Warburton.In 1885–87 the partnership designed Abbeystead House for the 4th Earl of Sefton in North Lancashire.Hubbard describes this as "the finest of Douglas's Elizabethan houses, and one of the largest which he ever designed".