The church was rebuilt after a fire had destroyed an earlier church in 1480. An outstanding feature is the fine medieval glass of the east window; much of it thought to have been brought here from Cartmel Priory at the Dissolution.

At the top of one of its lights is the coat of arms of John Washing, ancestor of George Washington; in it can be seen the "stars and stripes" which became the emblems of the national flag of the United States.

A major restoration came in 1870 when the tower and chancel were remodelled. At this time High Victorian coloured murals and texts were added to existing ones, so that all around the walls, and even on the beams supporting the roof, there are texts and patterns.

They were refurbished in 1960. Other items of interest include an ancient font, possibly thirteenth-century, and an unusual seventeenth-century wooden statue of St Martin on horseback.

In the churchyard, though partly now under the chancel, is the common grave of forty-seven wedding guest drowned when the cross-lake ferry sank in 1635.

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