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

• Wikidata Q17545208

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