Editing Cartmel Priory (section)

===17th century===
Despite the villagers' being allowed to keep the church, the lead was stripped from the nave, and until 1618<ref name=BHOLPC/> when George Preston, a landowner at nearby [[Holker Hall]], provided considerable finances to allow the roof to be reinstated, the villagers actually worshipped in the [[Choir (architecture)|choir]], rather than the [[nave]] of the church. In 1643 some [[Roundhead]] troops stayed in the village, stabling their horses in the church. Bullet holes from this time are still visible in the southwest door of the nave.

The nave was used after the Dissolution as a prison and later between 1624 and 1790 as a [[grammar school]].<ref name=BHOLPC>{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol8/pp254-265 |title=British History Online: The parish of Cartmel |access-date=7 March 2017}}</ref>