Church Of St Kentigern

The Church of St Kentigern is a parish church that dates back to the 12th century, with alterations and additions made in the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 17th centuries. It underwent restorations in 1821 and 1888 by C.J. Ferguson. The church features whitewashed rubble walls and west buttresses, topped with a graduated greenslate roof that has coped gables and a cross finial. It has a 5-bay nave and a south aisle, which includes a south porch and a twin open bellcote, as well as a 2-bay chancel.

The north wall of the nave contains 17th-century 2- and 3-light hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned windows, along with one window that lacks chamfers and an original pointed-arched window situated between the two eastern windows. The aisle features a re-used round-arched doorway set within a 14th-century stone porch, and has 17th-century 2-light hollow-chamfered windows beneath a moulded parapet. The east wall of the aisle has a blocked pointed-arched window. The chancel is equipped with north lancet windows, a south priest's doorway from the 15th or 16th century, and larger pointed-arched windows. The 19th-century east window is flanked by blocked lancets.

Inside the nave, there is a 5-bay aisle supported by pointed arches on octagonal columns, and an open timber roof from the 18th or 19th century. The church also features 18th-century creed and pater boards, likely installed alongside the Royal Arms of George II, dated 1752. White marble wall plaques commemorate Richard Richardson of Whamhead (1796), Jane Mitchell of Whamhead (1868), and George Burnthwaite of Lamonby (1780). A re-cut red sandstone font bowl, possibly dated 1671, is mounted on a 19th-century stem. The aisle includes two aumbry recesses, while the chancel has remnants of the south respond for a removed chancel arch, a 13th-century piscina, and an open timber roof with king-post trusses from the 16th or 17th century. A white marble wall plaque honors Rev Joseph Hudson (1811), created by Kirkbride of Carlisle, and the chancel features a 19th-century stained glass east window.