J. Nicolson & R. Burn, The History and Antiquities of the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, 2 vols. (1777), I, 210, cited Thomas Machell’s antiquarian studies from the 1690s, who ‘describes it in his time as an ancient chapel rebuilt; having a chimney in the north-west corner; the lintel thereof lying about a yard from the ground; and a yard above that, the funnel going out at an hole in the wall; without any bell, or any salary belonging to it, or any service performed. But it was made use of for the purpose of a school’. In 1717 Bishop Gastrell noted: 'A ruinous chapel, no services in it for many years'. It was further noted that, 'After the Dissolution of Religious Houses this Chapel had gone to decay and was made use of as a school'. Nicolson & Burn and Bishop Porteus's notes (1778-9) recorded that the chapel was augmented after Bishop Keene had personally visited it c. 1755, when it was 'then a petty school'. The chapel was rebuilt in 1773, by the help of a charity brief. 113, 200.