Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	St Peter's Church
	other name:-	Finsthwaite Church
	locality:-	Finsthwaite
	parish	Colton parish, once in Lancashire
	county:-	Cumbria
		church
	coordinates:-	SD36868782
	10Km square:-	SD38
	References	: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5
	1Km square	SD3687
		St Peter's Church -- Finsthwaite -- Colton -- Cumbria / -- 9.4.2010
		St Peter's Church -- Finsthwaite -- Colton -- Cumbria / -- 9.4.2010
	old map:-	Nurse 1918
		Map, The Diocese of Carlisle, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire North of the Sands, now Cumbria, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Rev Euston J Nurse, published by Charles Thurnam and Sons, 11 English Street, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1918 and 2nd edn 1939.
		FINSTHWAITE
	site name:-	Cartmel Rural Deanery
	site name:-	Archdeaconry of Furness
	site name:-	Diocese of Carlisle
	date:-	1939
	period:-	1930s
	old map:-	Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Win/Ble)
		Series of maps, An Accurate Map of the Matchless Lake of Derwent, of the Grand Lake of Windermere, of the Beautiful Lake of Ullswater, of Broadwater or Bassenthwaite Lake, of Coniston Lake, of Buttermere, Crummock and Loweswater Lakes, and Pocklington's Island, by Peter Crosthwaite, Kendal, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1783 to 1794.
		Finsthwaite chapel
		cross, church
	placename:-	Finsthwaite Chapel
	date:-	1783=1794
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s; 1790s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		CHURCH OF ST PETER / / / COLTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 421439 / SD3688387826
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Church. 1873-9. Paley and Austin. Coursed stone rubble with sandstone dressings, slate roof with tile ridge. Nave and chancel with tower between, north organ loft under catslide roof with adjoining lean-to vestry. Coped gables. 4-bay nave has round-headed windows; north gabled porch, part enclosed, part open, timber-framed on low stone walls, round-headed entrance of one order with moulded arch; corresponding bay to south is blind. West end has 2 windows on weathered sill band, with continuous hoodmould; 2 lead dampcourses and top lancet. Tower has deep weathered buttresses to north and south, with weathered projections between, that to south has round-headed lancet, with smaller lancet above; vestry has 2 windows, round stair window above, and diamond clock face to top; high pyramidal roof has north and south raking louvred dormers, east and west hipped stone dormers with round-headed louvred bell openings with zig-zag mouldings to arch; top weather-fish. Chancel has weathered sill band, 2 windows to north and one to south, east end has 3 windows, the central one wider, under continuous hoodmould; flushwork cross below sill; 2 lead dampcourses and lancet above, and gable cross. Organ loft has segmental-headed entrance and one window, lean-to outbuilding to east. Interior: Single rafter roofs with braced collars and ashlaring. 2 arches to tower are stepped, the inner part corbelled, blind arches to north and south of tower space and rib vaulted ceiling, painted scrollwork and angels bearing the Beatitudes. Nave has stencilled frieze and window arches, part of scheme most of which is whitewashed; 3 pendant light fittings with wrought iron decoration, one more elaborate to tower space. Chancel has good simple stalls, organ case and altar rail. Reredos by Salviati has mosaic panels, 1883, painted angels over east windows. Good stained glass to chancel possibly by Powell, and to west end. Good wall tablets: Edward Taylor, died 1790, James King, 1827, Margaret Taylor, 1820, and George Braithwaite, 1814, the last 3 by Webster of Kendal.
	placename:-	Church of St Peter
	district:-	South Lakeland
		listed building
	coordinates:-	SD36888782
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	incumbents:-	Harrison, John 1724=1741 Simpson, George 1741=1778 Peake, James 1778=1781 Birkett, John 1781=1805 Seatle, Henry 1805=1822 Bigland, John 1822=1871 Inman, Simon 1871=1913
		photographs
		St Peter's Church -- Finsthwaite -- Colton -- Cumbria / -- Candle lamp. -- 28.4.2006
		St Peter's Church -- Finsthwaite -- Colton -- Cumbria / -- Painted ceiling at the crossing. -- 9.4.2010
		St Peter's Church -- Finsthwaite -- Colton -- Cumbria / -- Organ by F W Jardine, Manchester, 1875. -- 9.4.2010
		St Peter's Church -- Finsthwaite -- Colton -- Cumbria / -- Organ by F W Jardine, Manchester, 1875. -- 28.4.2006
		St Peter's Church -- Finsthwaite -- Colton -- Cumbria / -- Grave of the 'Finsthwaite Princess', Clementina Johannes Sobiesky Douglass, d.1771. -- 28.4.2006
		St Peter's Church -- Finsthwaite -- Colton -- Cumbria / -- Grave of the 'Finsthwaite Princess', Clementina Johannes Sobiesky Douglass, d.1771. -- 28.4.2006
		St Peter's Church -- Finsthwaite -- Colton -- Cumbria / -- 28.4.2006
	hearsay	The new church by Paley and Austin, 1874, replaced one built 1724. It won first place in a competetion organised by the Diocesan Church Extension Society for a 'mountain chapel'.
	hearsay	The grave of the Finsthwaite Princess, reputedly the illegitimate daughter of Bonnie Prince Charlie, Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, is in the kirkyard. Martin, Geoffrey & Martin, Janet: 2002 (about): Church of St Peter, Finsthwaite
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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