In 1303 the Abbot of Holme Cultram obtained a charter from King Edward I to build a church at Newton Arlosh.

St Cutherbert's is the best example in Cumbria of a fortified church. The few windows are hardly wider than the slits in the stocky pele tower which was probably built first so as to provide refuge for both people and animals.

The main door to the church is less than 1 metre wide! It has a fine lectern standing on a base of bog-oak and a thirteenth-century font which may have come from the abbey.

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