Friends Meeting House
FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335539
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Friends Meeting House
- Statutory Address:
- FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335539
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Friends Meeting House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wetheral
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 44173 55062
Details
WETHERAL SCOTBY NY 45 NW
5/150 Friends Meeting House
II
Disused Quaker Meeting House. 1718, for the Borough, later Carlisle Monthly Meeting. Sandstone footings, brick walls, sandstone dressings and stone-slate roof. 1 storey and 3 bays: a typical simple meeting house of this period. Sandstone plinth course, with walls of English garden wall bond brickwork. Plain squared dressings to entrance and windows: sash windows with glazing bars. No internal fittings as building not used as a meeting house since 1913. Graveyard, to south, has unusual oval grave markers (about 19) dating between 1830 and 1896. Drawings and description in; David M Butler, Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties, 1978, p.7-9.
Listing NGR: NY4417355062
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 77732
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Butler, D M, Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties, (1978), 7-9
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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