Friends Meeting House
FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, FRIARN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197386
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Friends Meeting House
- Statutory Address:
- FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, FRIARN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197386
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Friends Meeting House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, FRIARN STREET
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, FRIARN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridgwater
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 29866 36886
Details
BRIDGWATER
ST2936NE FRIARN STREET 736-1/11/90 (North side) 16/12/74 Friends Meeting House
GV II
Friends Meeting House. 1722, much altered 1801 and extended c1971-2. Limestone rubble plinth, Flemish-bond brick with pantile roof and brick stack to left gable end. L-shaped plan. 2 storeys; 3-window range. The first floor has a 6/6-pane sash at eaves level to left and two 8/8-pane sashes to right; The ground floor has gauged brick segmental arches to two 6/6-pane sashes to left, 2 blind windows to right and to the left-of-centre double doors which have 2 panels with beaded edges, 3 steps and a late C19 boot scraper set into plinth. The rear wall of the main block is limestone rubble, windows to the rear wing have timber lintels. INTERIOR: The entrance hall is stone flagged with a barrel-vaulted ceiling and 6-panel doors to the sides. That to right leads to the former meeting room which has steps to a platform along the front wall. The present long meeting room behind the former, probably of 1801, is divided by a wooden screen of vertical sliding sashes with a 6-panel door to left. The whole room is panelled to lower part with horizontal tongued-and-grooved planks; large windows of 4 rows of 6 panes to left wall and 2 octagonal stone columns to front (south) end. (Stell C: Non-conformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses in SW England: London: 1991-: 169).
Listing NGR: ST2986336900
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373905
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stell, C, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in South West England, (1991), 169
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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