Friends' Meeting House
FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE, 19, QUAKER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135406
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Friends' Meeting House
- Statutory Address:
- FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE, 19, QUAKER LANE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135406
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Friends' Meeting House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE, 19, QUAKER LANE
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, 19, QUAKER LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 18973 24082
Details
SE 12 SE SPENBOROUGH MB QUAKER LANE HIGHTOWN 3/154 No. 19 (Friends' Meeting House)
II
Detached house. Built originally c.1699 and used as a Friends' Meeting House, though very altered in C.19 and with recent refurbishment. Rendered walls. Stone slate roof. Two storeys. Near central door in recent porch. To left and right, both floors, is C.19. 2-light sash window. Outshut to rear.
General Quarter Sessions of the West Riding, held at Wakefield on 11th January 1699 ordered that the newly erected house be recorded as a place of religious worship. The house became the focal point of Quaker activity in the area.
David Blamires, A History of Quakerism in Liversedge & Scholes, c.1974.
Listing NGR: SE1897324082
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 341061
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Blamires, D, A History of Quakerism in Liversedge and Scholes, (1974)
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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