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Latitude: 53.6502 / 53°39'0"N
Longitude: -1.3336 / 1°20'0"W
OS Eastings: 444147
OS Northings: 417281
OS Grid: SE441172
Mapcode National: GBR MV47.27
Mapcode Global: WHDCD.HJ61
Plus Code: 9C5WMM28+3H
Entry Name: Quaker Meeting House with Attached Lodges
Listing Date: 25 March 1968
Last Amended: 11 May 1988
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1135475
English Heritage Legacy ID: 342620
ID on this website: 101135475
Location: Low Ackworth, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF7
County: Wakefield
Civil Parish: Ackworth
Built-Up Area: Low Ackworth
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Ackworth St Cuthbert
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Quaker meeting house
ACKWORTH PONTEFRACT ROAD
SE41NW
(west side) Low
Ackworth
2/20 Quaker Meeting House
25.3.1968 with attached lodge
(formerly listed as
"Quaker Meeting House")
GV II*
Quaker Meeting House. 1847. Sandstone ashlar, slate roof. Rectangular plan
3 x 5 bays. Two storeys, in Classical style; symmetrical; pedimented 3-bay
entrance front covered at ground floor by Tuscan colonnade of coupled columns
with plain entablature (continued to right as facade of lodge - see below); 3
doorways at ground floor, and three 12-pane sashes at 1st floor; with
architraves, dentilled pediment, and an oculus within it; apex chimney (or
pedestal to former bellcote?). Return walls and rear in matching style.
Lodge attached at front right-hand corner, 2 x 2 bays and one storey, is
incorporated within the colonnade, but with pilasters and semi-columns, has a
narrow central doorway recessed between a pair of semi-columns, and a 12-pane
sash in each side bay; right-hand return wall has coupled pilasters to left
and right, a single pilaster in the centre, and similar windows.
Interior: of Meeting House has a horseshoe gallery supported on slender iron
columns, and at the rear end a raised floor approached by steps to left and
right, and protected by plain panelling with ramped handrail.
Listing NGR: SE4414717281
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