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Society of Friends Meeting House

A Grade II Listed Building in Leek, Staffordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1062 / 53°6'22"N

Longitude: -2.0283 / 2°1'42"W

OS Eastings: 398199

OS Northings: 356560

OS Grid: SJ981565

Mapcode National: GBR 24P.B0D

Mapcode Global: WHBCH.T691

Plus Code: 9C5V4X4C+FM

Entry Name: Society of Friends Meeting House

Listing Date: 13 April 1951

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1268552

English Heritage Legacy ID: 461676

ID on this website: 101268552

Location: Leek, Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, ST13

County: Staffordshire

District: Staffordshire Moorlands

Civil Parish: Leek

Built-Up Area: Leek

Traditional County: Staffordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Staffordshire

Church of England Parish: Leek St Edward the Confessor

Church of England Diocese: Lichfield

Tagged with: Quaker meeting house

Description


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SJ9856NW OVERTON BANK 611-1/4/102 Society of Friends Meeting House 13/04/51

II

Society of Friends meeting house, apparently purpose built. c1694. Roughly coursed and squared stone with plain-tiled roof. L-plan, with advanced wing to left (its gable wall refronted) containing staircase. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Off-centre door with 16-pane sash window above, both with flat stone lintels. Main body of meeting house has 3-window range, but most of the windows now blocked. Horizontal openings, possibly originally mullioned, with sash windows of 8 and 12 lights in left-hand windows, the others blocked. Blocked doorway to left of centre, with heavy chamfered lintel. Plain string course and quoins to former window openings. Similar blocked doorway in gable wall, and blocked 3-light mullioned window to its right. Tall upper window a later insertion (16-pane sash). Similar window openings in rear wall, all now sashes with heavy stone heads and quoins. Coped gables, and moulded string course. INTERIOR: stone staircase in advanced wing, the former galleried meeting room now subdivided under the gallery, which is itself now screened off with wood panelling. Meeting room has raised dais at one end, with dado panelling. The meeting house was used by the Labour Church in the late C19-early C20, and contains murals by Walter Crane which have been painted over.



Listing NGR: SJ9819956560

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