Church of St Cuthbert is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1968. Church.

Church of St Cuthbert

WRENN ID
solemn-sill-azure
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 February 1968
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Cuthbert, Cliburn
OS grid reference
NY 587 244
Coordinates
54.61388, -2.63999
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Cuthbert is a parish church dating from the 12th century, with significant restoration in the late 19th century. It is constructed from coursed, squared rubble with additional snecked rubble. The roofs are covered with graduated slate, featuring a lead roof over the aisle, stone copings, and kneelers. A bellcote with an iron gable-cross is located at the west end. The church originally had a two-cell plan, with a south aisle added and a gabled porch rebuilt in 1886.

On the north side of the chancel, there is a narrow slit window with a semicircular head that is likely original, while other windows are multi-light with variously foiled and cusped designs from the 19th century. The lead rainwater goods include dated rainwater heads from 1886 and decorative rosettes on the guttering. The south door, which dates back to the 12th century, has plain jambs and features small carved figures at either end of the shouldered lintel, with a blank tympanum decorated with chevrons on the voussoirs. Inside the porch, there are two fragmentary inscribed Roman stones and a part of a medieval grave slab built into the walls.

Internally, the church retains an original chamfered semicircular chancel arch, along with a late 19th-century octagonal arcade pier and responds. The late 12th-century font at the west end of the south aisle has an octagonal bowl, which may have been recut, with a moulded underside and a shaft decorated with zig-zag patterns, as well as a moulded necking leading to a chamfered base.

Local climate

Church of St Cuthbert sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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