Gastrell noted that when the new chapel was built in 1724, a school was erected at the same time, in which the Curate was obliged to teach scholars at 12d. per quarter. Bishop Porteus's survey in the 1770s noted that the school by then had been endowed with a house, garden, wetc., left by james Dixon by will dated 1729, now let at £1/10/- p.a. Butler, Cumbrian Parishes, 85, 180.