Church Of St Anthony

The Church of St Anthony is a church dating to around 1504, with a late 16th-century porch and a vestry likely built in the 18th century. It is constructed of roughcast stone with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. The building comprises a single-vessel nave and chancel, with small projections under catslide roofs to the east end. A west tower stands alongside a north-west vestry with a lean-to roof, and a south gabled porch.

The three-bay nave features a stone bench to the south facade, while straight-headed windows with three arched lights, hollow-chamfered mullions, label moulds, and leaded glazing are also present. A single, chamfered-mullioned window of two arched lights was inserted over the priest's door in 1698. The porch has a Tudor-arched, hollow-chamfered opening and an inner door with strap hinges. The chancel has a five-light east window and smaller square windows to the side, with a south window replaced in 1911 (originally a wooden mullioned frame). The north projection has entrances to the east and west. The vestry has a chimney stack and a west window. The saddleback tower has a blocked west entrance with an inserted window, small slots to each face, and plain stone-louvred bell openings.

Inside, the nave has tie beam and strut trusses. An arch leads to the baptistry, located under the tower, and a plain round font from 1712 is also present. Original benches and a chest remain. The organ is housed in the north-west corner. The Cowmire pew, in the north-east, is likely constructed from a former reredos and chancel screen dating to 1571, heavily restored in 1911. It has low panelling, one-light divisions with tracery heads, a coved cornice with Tudor flowers and cresting (missing to the east), and swan-neck hinges on the door. Some paint remains on the north panelling, including a halo. A small, traceried canopy above the pew is now in a different location. A table with incised game relates to the pew's earlier use as a school. A smaller pew to the east features bolection-moulded panels, foliage panels, and lettering “WH 1696”, with an H-hinge on the door. The Burblethwaite pew to the south-east, originally from the 17th century, was largely reconstructed in 1810 and includes turned posts, a pierced frieze and cornice with a canopy, and a tile panel depicting St Anthony. A three-decker pulpit dated 1698 stands to the west of this pew, with fielded panelling, a canted pulpit with tester, and the royal arms of 1781. The chancel includes an 18th-century, three-sided communion rail with a front projection and column balusters, with flanking painted Lord’s Prayer and creed boards, and a Commandment board to the north with an ogee head, cherubs and a dove, dated 1793. A small recess is located to the south of the altar. The east window retains substantial remains of stained glass, thought originally from Cartmel Priory but likely made for the church itself, depicting a crucifixion, the seven sacraments, and Saints Anthony and Leonard. The window was rearranged in 1911, and fragments, including depictions of the crucifixion and Christ appearing after resurrection, were placed in the north-east nave window.