St John the Baptist lies beside the road running to the foot of Coniston Water, beneath Lakeland fells on each side of the valley.
Built in 1862-63 to the designs of E G Paley, of local Whinstone with a slate roof, it blends in well with its surroundings; its furnishings and fittings date mostly from the same period.
Across the road are the scant remains of an earlier 16th-century church.