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A fishermen's church overlooking the sea.

A church was first established on this site in the aftermath of the Dissolution of the Monasteries when Cartmel Priory was dissolved as part of the Henrician Reformation and a chapel was built on the present site using materials from Cartmel around 1537.

Replacing an earlier Independent chapel dating from 1826, the present church building was erected in 1899.

Come and enjoy a moment of peace and recollection our beautiful church.

With a history reaching to the dawn of Christianity in Craven, this magnificent building tells a thousand year story with mediaeval piety and Tudor jerry building.

The church had its origins in Pictish times at St Brigids Well on Gretna Hill.

St Stephens welcomes all, situated in the oldest part of the village.

A village church in the centre of the community.

The beautiful village of Nether Kellet is set amongst rolling limestone pasture.

St Peter's is an outstanding example of the decorated style of architecture, with its warm red sandstone and distinctive shingled spire and clay tiled roof, an unusual feature in the Lake District.

In the centre of the village with fabulous views of the Coniston Old Man which overlooks Coniston Water, the church hails two local heroes in John Ruskin and Dinald Campbell.

There seem to have been chapels of the Knights Templars and Hospitallers in Wetherby but these would be distinct from a parochial chapel for the use of the ordinary laity.