Friends' Meeting House
FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE, SANSOME PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390135
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Friends' Meeting House
- Statutory Address:
- FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE, SANSOME PLACE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390135
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Friends' Meeting House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE, SANSOME PLACE
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, SANSOME PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Worcester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 85009 55217
Details
WORCESTER
SO8555SW SANSOME PLACE
620-1/13/497 (West side)
22/05/54 Friends' Meeting House
(Formerly Listed as:
SANSOME PLACE
(West side)
Former Friends Meeting
House)
GV II
Meeting house for the Society of Friends. 1701 with later
additions and alterations including interior re-ordering in 1980.
Pinkish-orange brick in Flemish bond with stuccoed plinth and
hipped plain tile roof.
EXTERIOR: single tall storey, 4 windows. Plinth. Tall wide 12/8
sashes in near-flush frames and cambered-arched surrounds with
cambered arches and sills. 3-course band over windows. Modillion
eaves band. Central entrance in projecting pedimented porch,
double 12-panel doors in plain architrave with flat arch of
gauged brick; frieze and moulded cornice. Further entrance in
right return under cambered arch, renewed 6-panel door. Rear has
tall 8/8 sashes.
INTERIOR: gallery to left part re-uses original panelling and
original oric columns, some re-used panelled dado.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Society of Friends began meeting in
Worcester in 1655 and land for this building was purchased in
1700, meetings were then transferred from Friar Street. In its
form and side wall entry plan, a characteristic example of Old
Dissent architecture.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 322; RCHME: Non-Conformist Chapels and
Meeting Houses in Central England: London: 1986-: 259; County
Record Office: Book of Abstracts; Folio 31, BA8769/1 (i)).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489105
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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