Church Coniston, Lancashire

Description
Church-Coniston, a township-chapelry in Ulverston parish, Lancashire, containing the town, the railway station, and the post office of Coniston. Acreage, 7424, of which 199 are water; population, 818. The manor belonged anciently to the Urswicks, and passed by marriage in the time of Henry III. to the Flemings. Coniston Hall, some time a ruin, now a refitted picturesque farmhouse, about half a mile south of the town, was the residence of the Le Flemings till the middle of the 17th century. The area of the chapelry includes the Coniston copper mines and a large portion of Coniston Fells. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle ; net value, £220 with residence. The church is a plain edifice in the Early English style, with a small tower containing two hells. A chancel was added in 1891, when the church underwent considerable alterations.