Description

STAFFORD

SJ9223NW FOREGATE STREET
590-1/9/24 (East side)
16/01/51 Friends' Meeting House

II*

Friends' meeting house. Dated 1730 with late C19 addition.
Brick; tile roof with coped gables. Rectangular structure set
back from road Single-storey; 3-window range. Top wooden
cornice. Entrance to right of centre has pegged frame and
altered panelled door, bracketed gabled canopy and bull's eye
window with bull's eye glass above, and datestone below
cornice. Windows have rubbed brick flat arches with fluted
keys and cross casements. Small window to left return. Rear
has single-storey wing next to window with pegged frame.
INTERIOR has original fittings: panelling, gallery with stair
with turned balusters; overseers' bench and elders' gallery. A
well-preserved example of an early meeting house, the best in
Staffordshire.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London:
1974-: 246; Victoria County History of Staffordshire:
Greenslade MW: A History of Stafford, taken from V.C.H.:
London: 1979-: 253).

Listing NGR: SJ9202223722

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17545208

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas