The church was completed in 1869, to a design by a London-based architect, Robert Brass.[3] It is the only church designed by Brass, who shortly afterwards ceased practice as an architect.[4]
It is built from local slate and sandstone, in an Early English style with chancel, transepts and a three-stage tower at the north-east.[5][6]
Features
The stained-glass windows are by the following firms:
South wall of nave depicting St Miriam playing the timbrel and St Cecilia playing the organ.[10]
The organ is by Gray & Davison, dating from 1875.[11] In 2015 an undated chamber organ was on loan to the church and located in the north transept; it had arrived in the church from Cark Methodist Church after it closed in 2005.[12]
The Revd Alexander MacLeod Murray, chaplain to the Bela Camp for German and Italian POWs.[17]
Parish
The area of the parish was originally part of the parish of Hawkshead; it became a separate parish in 1873.[18] In 1982 it became part of a united benefice with Hawkshead, and in turn in 2003 the parishes of Rusland and Satterthwaite joined the united benefice.[19] There is a weekly service (2024).[20]
