South Lakes
Kirkby Lonsdale - St Mary's Church

Records from the church of St Mary suggest that an old Saxon church situated in Kirkby Lonsdale was granted to the Abbey of St Mary's of York by a local warlord in 1093. There appears to be nothing left of the Saxon church and the church of St Mary that exists now is a Norman construction and is believed to have been built somewhere around the turn of the 10th century.