Its benefice is Black Combe, Drigg, Eskdale, Irton, Muncaster and Waberthwaite.

[2] Corney St John is thought to have been built in the 12th Century, and was restored in 1882.

It formerly belonged to the Abbey of St. Mary, York, which presented to the living in 1536, but is now a rectory in the patronage of the earl of Lonsdale, the advowson being purchased of John, first baron Muncaster, in 1803.

[3] According to Mannix and Whelan (1847) the church was "a plain edifice with a belfry containing two bells" and the vestry was added in 1847.

[5] The round grey font, has of the farther and of the son and of the holy spirit carved around.