Finningley Holy Trinity & St Oswald

Features and Fittings

Chancel

13th century double-bowl piscina

13th century sedilia

Nave

Plain Norman round tub font on a two-step plinth with a Jacobean wooden cover. Sections of the rim have been repaired. The bowl is lead-lined.

The pulpit in 2013 Inscription on
the pulpit

Hexagonal, oak-panelled pulpit with moulded cornice and inscription:

Anno Domini      1604      Thomas Partrik

During the Reordering Project of 2017 the pulpit was moved to the north side of the sanctuary.

The highly decorated wooden lectern was donated in 1885 by Charles Oldfield and Mrs Marsden.

A benefactions board is mounted on the south wall of the nave to the west of the south door.

It lists the 'Benefactions to the poor of the Parish of Finningley' from 1617 to 1851.

North Aisle

On the north wall of the aisle, directly below the monument to the Rev John Harvey, is a brass plaque recording the restoration of the church in 1885:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THOSE
WHO REST IN THIS CHURCHYARD,
THIS CHURCH WAS RESTORED IN THE YEAR 1885
AT A COST OF £1250, BY THE RECTOR,
PARISHIONERS AND MANY FRIENDS.
£500 OF THE ABOVE SUM WAS A BEQUEST FROM
THE LATE JOHN HARVEY, ESQ.
OF ICKWELLBURY, BEDFORDSHIRE.

 

               THOMAS HOWEY, RECTOR

 

 

               ROBERT PLATTS,

 

 

               JOHN CUDWORTH,

 

 

               CHARLES LISTER,

 

 

               JARVIS WILD,

 

 

 

CHURCHWARDENS

   

C. HODGSON FOWLER, ESQ, DURHAM

 W. ANELAY, DONCASTER

ARCHITECT.

CONTRACTOR.

To the east of the Rev John Harvey's monument is a stone niche.

Vestry

Painted wooden board with text from St John, Chapter 6, Verses 54-55.

A Reordering Project undertaken in 2017 involved the removal of all the pews, stalls and desks from the church. Decorated panels from the choir stalls have been incorporated in new oak screens installed in front of the west wall of the nave.