Malton Meeting House and Attached Walls Bounding Quaker Burial Ground
MALTON MEETING HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS BOUNDING QUAKER BURIAL GROUND, GREENGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1291410
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Malton Meeting House and Attached Walls Bounding Quaker Burial Ground
- Statutory Address:
- MALTON MEETING HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS BOUNDING QUAKER BURIAL GROUND, GREENGATE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1291410
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Malton Meeting House and Attached Walls Bounding Quaker Burial Ground
- Statutory Address 1:
- MALTON MEETING HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS BOUNDING QUAKER BURIAL GROUND, GREENGATE
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:
- MALTON MEETING HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS BOUNDING QUAKER BURIAL GROUND, GREENGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Malton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE7872471894
Details
SE780715
801-1/8/40
29/09/51
MALTON
GREENGATE
(North side)
Malton Meeting House and attached walls bounding Quaker Burial Ground
(Formerly Listed as:
GREENGATE
(North side)
Friends' Meeting House. Cemetery & Cemetery Perimeter Walls to the S)
GV
II*
Quaker meeting house, and attached walls bounding burial
ground on north, south, east and west sides. Meeting House
dated 1823. Wall to south of burial ground dated 1823; C18
walls surviving from earlier Meeting House garden to east and
west; walls to north C20.
Meeting House of pink and cream mottled brick in Flemish bond,
on sandstone plinth; sandstone dressings, and timber cornice
to hipped slate roof. South wall to burial ground of pink and
cream mottled brick in English bond; walls to east and west of
orange-red brick in Engish garden-wall bond; stone copings and
dressings.
Meeting House: one tall storey of 6 bays. Right of centre
double doors with 2 grooved panels, 2 raised panels and 2
glazed panels; blocked square opening with stone sill above
doors. Remaining windows are 24-pane sashes, 2 to right of
doors, 3 to left, over continuous sillband. All openings have
flat arches of gauged brick. Scrolled, wrought-iron gas
bracket over door. Moulded eaves cornice encircles building.
Rear: four 12-pane fixed light windows with flat arches, over
sillband. Left and right returns: single, external,
square-section chimney stack in centre of each wall.
INTERIOR: 2 rooms separated by a passage with panelled
shutters on each side, designed to be opened up to form one
single large meeting room. Fielded panel doors with original
fittings. Overhead gallery with turned column balusters. Room
to left: raised and fielded dado panelling. Fitted benches to
3 sides: fourth side has dais behind panelled partition
carrying balustrade of short turned column balusters and
moulded rail. Passage and both meeting rooms have cast-iron
ceiling vents in moulded circular surrounds. Datestone over
lintel of main door inscribed: ANNO DOMINI 1823.
The plain design of the meeting house, incorporating the
acoustic shuttering in the entrance passage, is influenced by
William Alexander's Observations on ... Meeting Houses (York,
1820), and represents a notable advance in the design of such
buildings.
Walls to burial ground: wall to south approx 30m long and 6m
high has square-arched gateway with monolithic lintel
containing cast-iron double gates with spearhead finials.
Inner face of lintel inscribed: ANNO DOMINI, 1823. Towards
right end is a board door beneath monolithic lintel, giving
access to No.21, former caretaker's house (qv). West wall
approx 30m long, east wall approx 23m long; both walls varying
in height from approx 5m and stepped up in places. Flat coping
to all walls. Attached to west wall are 2 slate slabs
recording cremations between 1948-1972 & 1968-1990
respectively. Part of west wall collapsed.
Listing NGR: SE7872471894
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389419
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Alexander, W, Observations on Meeting Houses, (1820)
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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