Churches in CumbriaCumbria, England

Carlisle Cathedral precinct

Surviving priory church with a distinctive diagonal tower.

One of England's smallest churches, a tiny stone chapel among yews at the head of Wast Water, remembering climbers lost on the fells.

One of the smallest parish churches in England, a plain 17th-century chapel above the Eden at Armathwaite.

Keswick's ancient parish church with a Norman font and the grave of poet Robert Southey, below Skiddaw.

Troutbeck's valley church, its east window a glowing Arts and Crafts collaboration by Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown and Morris.

A large twelfth-century church at the heart of Sedbergh, a haven of peace below the Howgills.

A remote 500-year-old chapel at Cartmel Fell, keeping its old box pews, three-decker pulpit and medieval glass.

Eden-valley church fronted by a fortified 14th-century pele tower, a refuge against border raiders.

Vale-of-Lorton church near an ancient yew that Wordsworth wrote of, in green country between Cockermouth and Buttermere.

Eden-valley church carrying the only Anglo-Saxon tower in the old county of Westmorland, among the oldest in the north.

Appleby's parish church at the foot of Boroughgate, with a rare 16th-century organ and the tomb of Lady Anne Clifford.

Rydal's small church of 1824, built with Wordsworth's involvement, beside the daffodil slope of Dora's Field he planted for his daughter.

Grasmere's medieval church where Wordsworth worshipped and lies buried in the churchyard beside the rushbearing that still keeps its floor strewn.

Eden-valley church with a spring under the chancel and its bell-tower standing apart on a hill above the village.