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Friends' Meeting House

A Grade II* Listed Building in Addingham, Bradford

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.9621 / 53°57'43"N

Longitude: -1.8855 / 1°53'7"W

OS Eastings: 407610

OS Northings: 451790

OS Grid: SE076517

Mapcode National: GBR HQ8M.LF

Mapcode Global: WHC8G.0NFX

Plus Code: 9C5WX467+VR

Entry Name: Friends' Meeting House

Listing Date: 10 September 1954

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1199556

English Heritage Legacy ID: 337775

ID on this website: 101199556

Location: Beamsley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, LS29

County: Bradford

Civil Parish: Addingham

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Addingham St Peter

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

Tagged with: Quaker meeting house

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Description


SE05SE ADDINGHAM C.P. BOLTON ROAD
(west side off)

2/45 Friends' Meeting
10.9.54 House

G V II*

Friends' Meeting House. Dated 1689. Thin coursed rubble, ashlar
dressings, stone slate roof. Domestic looking. Single storey, 3 bays.
Quoins. Doorway with composite jambs has segmental-arched lintel
bearing date set within a tressure, stop-chamfered surround. Double-
chamfered mullion windows. 3-light window to left, 4-light to right.
Coped gables with kneelers. Central stack with one other added to
right gable.

Interior: single vessel with king-post truss braced to ridge with single
angle struts. East end retains original oak-panelled dais with settles
and rostrum with finely-turned balusters forming Elders' Gallery. Oak-
panelled settle and one other to north wall.

Built in the year of the Act of Toleration, and as such an important and
fairly complete survival of a Quaker Meeting House.

N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding (London 1979), p195.


Listing NGR: SE0761051790

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