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
first-railing-ochre
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, Low Street, Milburn
OS grid reference
NY 652 290
Coordinates
54.65538, -2.54085
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Cuthbert is a parish church that dates from the 13th century and includes some reset work from the 12th century. It is constructed of coursed, squared rubble with quoins on a chamfered plinth. The roof is made of graduated slate and features stone-flagged eaves on the north side. At the west end, there is a gabled bellcote from 1894 that incorporates finials from an earlier bellcote dated 1665, and there is an apex cross at the east end. The church consists of a single cell with a south aisle that was extended by one bay in 1605, marked by a datestone over a window from 1722. On the south side, there is a reset 12th-century doorway with a semicircular head. The church has a mix of 2- and 3-light windows from various periods. Inside, there is a 13th-century tomb slab featuring a wheeled cross and shears, which has been reset in the porch. The south arcade has two bays with pointed arches supported by a 13th-century freestanding octofoil pier. There are remains of a bracket piscina with an ogee head in the south aisle and an aumbrey with a pointed head in the south wall of the chancel. The chancel walls are lined with panelling from 18th-century box pews.

Local climate

Church of St Cuthbert sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 68 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 45 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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