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The village is small and modest; its church is large and sumptuous.

Situated within open countryside with views to the Lakeland fells, St Michael';s church lies on a mound in the centre of a circular graveyard, perhaps a pre Christian site.

In meadow lands close to the River Avon.

The cruciform church is Grade I and backs onto Dinton Park.

The old church at Mereworth was found to spoil the view of John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland, from his splendid new Palladian house, so he demolished it (he had already done away with the old castle and the village) and built a new classical church, and a new village, nearby.

We are a friendly family church with a big heart, serving our community in many ways and hoping to do much more in the future.

Architect John Coates Carter is a well kept secret, his buildings embody the Arts & Crafts movement of the early 20th century and St Paul's is said to be the finest of his surviving early churches.

One of the most powerful of Anglo Saxon churches in England, large in scale and bold in conception.

St Ives is an early work (1868) by prolific architect Charles Hodgson Fowler, and its style is the plain 19th century reinterpretation of medieval Early English.