Described in Bishop Gastrell's returns as a chapel within Cockermouth. £2 p.a. (the interest of £40 raised by the inhabitants out of estates) for a Reader. The Cumbria Parishes, 1714-1725, ed., L.A.S. Butler, Cumb. & Westmorland Ant. & Arch. Soc., vol. 12 (1998), 53