The chapel was probably first built shortly before 1469. 'In 1708 this chapel was rebuilt at the expense of the inhabitants and soon after made parochial'. The Cumbria Parishes, 1714-1725 from Bishop Gastrell's Notitia with additions by Bishop Porteus, 1778-1779, ed. L.A.S. Butler, Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, vol. 12 (1998), 118.