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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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1291410
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-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-Sep-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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MALTON MEETING HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS BOUNDING QUAKER BURIAL GROUND, GREENGATE

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District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Malton
National Grid Reference:: SE 78729 71890

Details

MALTON

SE780715 GREENGATE 801-1/8/40 (North side) 29/09/51 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: SE7872971890

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Legacy System number:: 389419
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Sources

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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.