Church of St Patrick

The Church of St Patrick is a parish church dating to 1726-28, built on a medieval site and restored in 1804. It is constructed of large blocks of calciferous sandstone with V-jointed quoins, partly rendered, on a chamfered plinth. The roof is of graduated greenslate with coped gables and cross finials, which were relaid in 1986. The church has a seven-bay plan, with a two-bay chancel. A three-storey, west square tower/porch is present, featuring double plank doors with an overlight in a pilastered surround and a broken segmental pediment. The tower has two-light round-headed windows and bell openings. The nave has tall round-headed windows in stone surrounds with false keystones. Doorways are located at the west end of both the north and south walls, the southern doorway being blocked. The chancel has similar windows, culminating in a triple round-headed east window. Eighteenth-century gravestones have been set into the walls at various points.

The interior features three-bay timber arcades with round arches supported by Tuscan columns. A barrel vaulted timber roof covers the space. Original eighteenth-century panelled pulpits and pews remain, incorporating earlier panels, one dated 1684. White marble wall plaques from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries adorn the walls. The font consists of a twelfth-century square bowl, inscribed "MW 1662," set on a twentieth-century plinth. A single nineteenth-century figurative stained-glass window is present, alongside a nineteenth-century stained-glass east window in the chancel, created by Ward and Hughes. Further nineteenth-century white marble wall plaques commemorate members of the Noble family. Early eighteenth-century turned-baluster communion rails complete the interior.

Parish records confirm the church was consecrated on June 20, 1728, by the Bishop of Carlisle.