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| meeting house, Colthouse | ||
| Colthouse Meeting House | ||
| Hawkshead Meeting House | ||
| locality:- | Colthouse | |
| civil parish:- | Claife (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | meeting house | |
| locality type:- | quaker meeting | |
| coordinates:- | SD35899817 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD3598 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD39 | |
| references:- | Butler 1978 |
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 BSK01.jpg (taken 30.3.2010)  BSK02.jpg Date stone:- "1688" (taken 30.3.2010) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 5) |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. "Quaker's Meeting House" at Town End |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 5 2) |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. "Friends' Meeting House" "Friends' Burial ground" separate locations |
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| evidence:- | text:- placename:- Colthouse Meeting House placename:- Hawkshead Meeting House |
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| source data:- | : : Quaker Administrative History "COLTHOUSE, Hawkshead, Lancs, after 1974 Cumbr ... SD359982" "1668- ... Swarthmore MM" "HAWKSHEAD (COLTHOUSE), Lancs, after 1974 Cumbr ... see COLTHOUSE, HAWKSHEAD" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Backhouse 1773 placename:- Hawkshead meeting |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Map of the Meetings belonging to
the Quarterly Meetings of Lancaster, Westmorland, Cumberland,
Northumberland, Durham and York, scale about 9 miles to 1 inch,
by James Backhouse, engraved by Thomas Kitchin, published by
James Backhouse, Darlington, Durham, 1773. BKH2Swrt.jpg labelled:- "Hawkshead / 2.5" meeting day Thursday nearby market day Monday item:- private collection : 224 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s |
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| source data:- | Drawing, pencil, Friend's Meeting House, Colthouse, Claife, Lancashire, by Theophilus
Lindsey Aspland, 30 September 1852. click to enlargeAS0372.jpg "Friend's Meeting house Colthouse / Septr 30. 52." page number "56" item:- Armitt Library : 1958.390.72 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | drawing:- Butler 1978 placename:- Colthouse Meeting House |
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| source data:- | Colthouse Meeting House drawn by David Butler and published in Quaker Meeting Houses
of the Lake Counties by David M Butler, by the Friends Historical Society, 1978 courtesy of David Butler  click to enlargePR1536.jpg  click to enlargePR1537.jpg  click to enlargePR1538.jpg item:- private collection : 377 Images © Friends Historical Society |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE / / / CLAIFE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 76732 / SD3588798174" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Meeting house. 1688 with later alterations. Roughcast with some slate hanging and slate roof. 3 bays, the 3rd bay with lst floor, and low wing to right return. 1st 2 bays have tall sashed windows with glazing bars, inserted in 1790. 3rd bay has window with small-paned fixed glazing and opening pane under dripcourse; sashed window above. Large gabled porch has segmental-arched opening with 2-light casement above, with leaded glazing. Gable-end stack and small wing with C20 door and casement. Left return has 2 double-chamfered cross-mullion windows under label mould with slate hanging over, and roughcast apex. Rear has one 3-light double-chamfered mullioned window with transom to 1st bay. Interior: Porch has wide-boarded doors with wood locks and strap hinges to meeting room and schoolroom. To left, hat pegs; to right wide-boarded doors with H-L hinges, one to stair. Meeting room has beams with stepped stops and fielded panelling and possibly later dais. Partition to schoolroom with balustrade to gallery above; upper panels can be slid up to screen off gallery. Schoolroom has fielded panelling and fixed benches; upper panels to partition can be lifted up to open room into meeting room. Small stone fireplace. Winding stair to gallery has plank and muntin panelling. ." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "QUAKER BURIAL GROUND WALLS / / / CLAIFE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76736 / SD3586498052" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Burial ground walls. 1658 with later extensions to south, now enclosing area approx 15m x 40m. Stone rubble walls to 4 sides, with entrance to north. Inner face of north wall has stone benches; remains of similar benches to inner face of east wall to north end. Entrance has stone lintel with slate dripcourse and C20 paired doors. Land bought in 1658; indenture describing burial ground dated 1669. This is a very early example of a burial ground of the Society of Friends." |
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 BSK03.jpg Burial ground nearby, (taken 30.3.2010)  BSK04.jpg (taken 30.3.2010) |
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| hearsay:- |
The quaker meeting house was built 1688, before the Toleration Act 1689. Earlier meetings
were held in secret, sometimes in the quaker burial ground which was begun in 1658. |
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| The burial ground is up the road on the left. At first there were no headstones of
any sort. From later in the 18th century simple round grave markers were used, inscribed
with just a name and date. |
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