JORDANS MEETING HOUSE

JORDANS MEETING HOUSE, WELDERS LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1332449
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1958
List Entry Name:: JORDANS MEETING HOUSE
Statutory Address:: JORDANS MEETING HOUSE, WELDERS LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1332449
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1958
List Entry Name:: JORDANS MEETING HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: JORDANS MEETING HOUSE, WELDERS LANE

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:: JORDANS MEETING HOUSE, WELDERS LANE

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District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Chalfont St. Giles
National Grid Reference:: SU 97452 91021

Details

CHALFONT ST GILES WELDERS LANE 1. 5134 Jordans Meeting House SU 99 SE 2/67 22.12.58

I 2. 1688 (formerly incised on cornice). Red brick, hipped old tile roof with coved cornice. Left hand section containing meeting room is one storeyed with 2 cross mullion diamond lattice casements with flat arches and panelled shutters. Four panel 2 fold door with astragal moulding and oblong 2-light wood mullion fan. Right hand section is 2 storeyed with paired casements. Panelled shutters. Ground floor flat arches. Altered 1717 (incised on brick on north wall). Interior: meeting room has original panelling. Gallery dated 1733. In graveyard immediately outside are buried William Penn and members of his family and Thomas Ellwood (diarist, prominent Quaker and friend of John Mitton). This meeting house by reason of its antiquity and its associations with William Penn and the early Quakers has very great historical interest. RCHM I, 82 Monument 2, and VCH III, p 185.

Listing NGR: SU9745491022

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Legacy System number:: 44442
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Buckingham, (1908), 185
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.