Friends' Meeting House
FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE, HALFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1382580
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Friends' Meeting House
- Statutory Address:
- FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE, HALFORD ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1382580
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Friends' Meeting House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE, HALFORD ROAD
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, HALFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ettington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP2677348701
Details
ETTINGTON
SP24NE
1912-1/7/70
06/02/52
HALFORD ROAD
(West side)
Friends' Meeting House
(Formerly Listed as:
ROAD TO MORETON-IN-MARSH
Friend's Meeting House)
II*
Quaker meeting house. 1684-9 with minor alterations of 1894
and c1980 addition. Coursed limestone rubble with flush
ironstone quoins and ashlar dressings; steeply pitched
graduated slate roof with coped gables. Small rectangular
structure.
EXTERIOR: south-west front has 2 windows and entrance under
continuous timber lintel; entrance to right end has 1976 plank
door, replacing original now preserved inside, and heavy
door-frame; 3-light windows with heavy pegged frames and
leaded glazing; opening lights with wrought-iron window
fasteners. 3-light recessed-chamfered-mullioned window to
right return, which has alternate narrow rubble courses.
INTERIOR: flag floors and C19 wall benches and earlier side
benches; 2 original high-backed benches to one end, the higher
with enriched bench ends; lower parts of 2 trusses with low
collars visible below plaster ceiling. Left return has
projecting late C20 breeze-block addition with hipped slate
roof with gablet and wide eaves over oriel and recessed porch
to right.
A good example of a very early meeting house.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth:
1966-: 291; An Inventory of Non-con Chapels and Mtg Houses in
Cent England: Herefs, Warks and Worcs (extracted from above):
1986-: 233-4).
Listing NGR: SP2677348701
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482964
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England, (1986), 233-234
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966)
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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