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St Mary's dates mostly from the 15th century and from the outside its two most striking features are the flint built tower and the beautiful south porch of stone and flint.

A church has stood on this site, a small hill above Hawkshead, for over 800 years with the present church being built around 1490 (parts of the tower are older) and little changed since the late 16th century.

An oasis of calm in the heart of a busy tourist area.

A railway church.

Sir Roger de Montalt, a baron during the reign of Henry VIII, gifted the land on which St Mary's was built.

A hermitage or small monastic settlement may have existed at Nun Monkton during the Anglian period in Northumbria, prior to the arrival of the Vikings, giving rise to the 'Monkton' part of the village's name.

One of the finest fabrics in the district of the Perpendicular period.

The Queen of the Marsh.