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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Farfield Friends Meeting House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5435076

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living