Photo of Crosthwaite Church (St Kentigern's), a church near Keswick in the Lake District, Cumbria, north west England.

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Crosthwaite Church (St Kentigern's)

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The poet Robert Southey is buried in the churchyard here, under a marble monument carved in 1846. Crosthwaite Church (St Kentigern’s) is the old parish church for Keswick, set a little apart from the town below Skiddaw, with a font dating from around 1400. It’s an easy walk out from Keswick.

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