There are 3 Celtic crosses in the churchyard; the monks of Whalley attributed them to St. Augustine which would make them some 1370 years old. 

More modern estimates date the oldest cross to the 10^th century and taking the Celtic pattern into account it is more likely that they commemorate a Scottish mission from Iona. 

Nevertheless their existence here proves that a Christian presence was established before the Norman Conquest in 1066! 

During rioting under the Commonwealth a mob overturned the crosses threw them into a ditch. William Johnson, Vicar 1738-1776 had them restored and firmly fastened into their original bases.