Friends Meeting House
FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, BLOXHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1046356
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Friends Meeting House
- Statutory Address:
- FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, BLOXHAM ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1046356
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Friends Meeting House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, BLOXHAM ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, HORN HILL ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, BLOXHAM ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, HORN HILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Adderbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 46518 35302
Details
SP4635 ADDERBURY HORN HILL ROAD (West side) Adderbury West 6/75 Friends Meeting House 08/12/55 (Formerly listed as Friends Meeting House, Bloxham Road)
GV II* Quaker meeting house. 1675 for Bray Doyley. Coursed squared marlstone with some ashlar dressings and wooden lintels; concrete plain-tile roof with rebuilt ashlar gable stack. Single range. One storey plus loft galleries. Symmetrical front has a central doorway with double doors flanked by large 3-light leaded casements, all with stop-chamfered lintels; right end and both gables have similar casements. Steep-pitched roof has stone gable parapets with moulded projecting kneelers, and has the stack to left with a renewed datestone inscribed "1675"; central gabled dormer has a moulded cornice above a 2-light leaded casement. Interior: stone-paved floor with a dais along the rear wall; C18 matchboard dado with fixed perimeter benches; winder stair leading to a 3-sided gallery carried on chamfered beams with a simple slat balustrade. The interior is complete with late C17/early C18 pine benches and represents an unusual survival. (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol IX, p12; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p415)
Listing NGR: SP4651835302
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243797
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969), 12
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 415
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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