A powerful installation bearing messages from survivors of abuse and church members across the globe was held outside Carlisle Cathedral and St Peter's Church in Kirkbampton this week.

Hundreds of ribbons adorned fences at both churches as part of the annual LOUDfence display which brings the voices of those who have suffered front and centre in the hopes of reforming the culture of the church.

They included words and stories from those who have experienced abuse at the hands of church figures as well as familial abuse. 

Antonia Sobocki, senior director of LOUDfence UK, said: "The LOUDfence has adapted to meet the needs of the people it's there for.

"It had become really apparent very early on that this was not a church problem, this was a human problem.

"This was social services, this was boarding schools, this was hospitals, this was sports clubs, youth groups, this was scouts, this was everywhere.

"Every socioeconomic background, every class, every country, there was no group that was unaffected by this. And so we just said, throw the doors open, let them all in, so that's what we did."

This year's installation in Kirkbampton included a wreath with the details from the recently discovered mother and baby home in Kendal where tens of babies were buried in an unmarked grave.

Tags featured the names and ages of the babies when they died, some as young as 45 minutes old and others a couple of months old. 

"We felt really strongly that the mother and baby home that's been discovered in Kendal, that's tragic, beyond tragic," said Antonia.

"A lot of people would like to think that that is an Irish problem. That's not something that happened here, but that's something that happens everywhere. 

"We just feel in Kirkbampton, it's not just something we should do, but that we have a moral obligation to stand up and say, this was wrong, it shouldn't have happened. And we're not the church we say we are if we're not prepared to own it and do something about it."

The LOUDfence has been taken down at Carlisle Cathedral and the ribbons will now be made into an altar piece. 

Kirkbampton's ribbons will be in place until Saturday afternoon.