Although much restored in 1896, this is an ancient foundation dating from 1050 and has the only Anglo-Saxon church tower in Cumbria.

The ladders still used inthe tower were made by the village carpenter from an oak tree in 1680. The rest of the building is a mixture of work of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Inside are many interesting features: the font, dated 1662; fifteenth-century carved heads on a beam in front of the organ; and, from 1920, a beautiful east window and a fine carved oak reredos.

An unusual palimpsest brass plaque has on one side a memorial to a vicar who died in 1562, whilst the other depicts a sixteenth-century knight.

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