St Martins Church

St Martin's Church stands in the centre of the city of Windermere, Cumbria, England. It is an lively Anglican parish church inside the deanery of Windermere, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle. The church is recorded within the National Heritage List for England as a delegated Grade I indexed constructing. A church has been gift on the website considering at least 1203. This became at the beginning a chapel of ease to the mom church at Kendal, becoming a parish in its own proper in 1348 at which era the churchyard turned into consecrated.

The church burnt down in 1480, only the font, the base of the tower, and one door surviving. A new church was built and was consecrated in 1483. Amongst the benefactors was a local provider named Bellman, who is stated to have furnished the lead for the roof. The church presently had a simple plan, consisting of a nave with aisles, and a west tower. It contained box pews, a rood loft, a three-decker pulpit and, by using 1812, a west gallery. On the partitions and roof beams had been murals and painted biblical texts. You can come and explore this place.