Church Of St Cuthbert

The Church of St Cuthbert is a parish church that dates back to the 13th century and underwent extensive remodeling in 1609. It was restored in 1865, during which a west bellcote was added. The church is constructed of random rubble, with stone slab roofs on the nave and south chapel, and Lakeland slate on the chancel. The building features a nave, chancel, and south chapel. The west end includes a 19th-century gabled bellcote and two large 19th-century offset buttresses, with a 19th-century lancet window in between. There are also two 17th-century offset buttresses on either side of the west end. The nave has six bays with possibly 17th-century lancets set between the 17th-century buttresses. In the third bay, there is a 17th-century north door with a shallow pointed arch, and a similar blocked south door, which also has a square recess with a projecting moulded frame above. The large south chapel features an off-centre, three-light 13th-century window with intersecting tracery, a single lancet on the right return, and a 17th-century square-headed window on the left return. The 13th-century chancel has one original one-light south window and an east end with three lancets that have monolithic heads. The remarkable roof consists of alternating strips of single and double thickness stone slabs.

Inside, the church has the east and west responds of a former 13th-century arcade in the corners of the nave, along with a 13th-century double-chamfered chancel arch. The nave features 17th-century chamfered round rere-arches for the lancets. The nave roof is a stone barrel vault with 15 transverse broach-stopped chamfered ribs, and the south chapel has a similar roof along with a triple-shafted corbel respond from a 13th-century west arcade. The arch leading into the chapel from the nave is round and double-chamfered with broach stops from 1609. The east lancets have shouldered rere-arches. There are monuments to Archibald Reed from 1729 and Theresa and Harriet Charlton from 1829 on the north wall of the chancel inside. Attached to the south wall of the chancel outside is a monument to the Charlton family of Redesmouth from 1628, featuring large irregular lettering carved in relief. A late 19th-century Gothic copper lamp hangs over the north door.