Hawkshead, GB

St Michael & All Angels

A church has stood on this site, a small hill above Hawkshead, for over 800 years. The present church was built around 1490 (parts of the tower are older) and has been little changed since the late 16th century. Grade 1 listed, it is one of the finest examples of a late mediaeval, vernacular Lake District church.
It has literary connections with Wordsworth and was also the home the home of Archbishop Sandys in the 16th century.

About this building

For more information visit on this building visit www.explorechurches.org/church/st-michael-all-angels-hawkshead

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St Oswald

This church is well known because of its associations with the great Romantic poet William Wordsworth, who lived in nearby Dove Cottage and is buried in the churchyard.

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St Peter

St Peter's was built in 1874 designed by well known Lancashire firm of Paley and Austin and won an award for its design as a ‘mountain chapel'. This Grade II* church was built with no aisle, and a tower vault divides the church from the chancel. A lychgate was added in 1914. Built on the site of an earlier chapel together they have served the community for nearly three centuries.

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St Mary

A church was first established on this site in the aftermath of the Dissolution of the Monasteries when Cartmel Priory was dissolved as part of the Henrician Reformation and a chapel was built on the present site using materials from Cartmel around 1537.

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