Latitude: 54.8242 / 54°49'26"N
Longitude: -3.1633 / 3°9'47"W
OS Eastings: 325356
OS Northings: 548322
OS Grid: NY253483
Mapcode National: GBR 6DBN.YG
Mapcode Global: WH6Z7.C0WK
Plus Code: 9C6RRRFP+MM
Entry Name: Friends Meeting House
Listing Date: 1 April 1967
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1327171
English Heritage Legacy ID: 72059
ID on this website: 101327171
Location: Wigton, Cumberland, Cumbria, CA7
County: Cumberland
District: Allerdale
Civil Parish: Wigton
Built-Up Area: Wigton
Traditional County: Cumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: Wigton St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Carlisle
Tagged with: Quaker meeting house
NY 2548 WIGTON WEST STREET (North side) Wigton
14/104 Friends Meeting House 1/4/67 II
Friends Meeting House. Dated 1830 over side entrance, probably by William Alderson. Snecked red sandstone ashlar with heavy cornice and broad angle pilasters on chamfered plinth. Hipped slate roof. Single-storey, 3-bay facade. Large sash windows with glazing bars in eared pilastered surrounds. Flanking incised rendered screen walls have panelled doors in pilastered surrounds, that to left giving access to graveyard and that to right giving access to 2 side entrances under a colonnade on slender cast-iron columns. 2-storey, single-bay extension to right has external stone steps to former upper-floor schoolroom. See David M. Butler, Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties, 1978, pp23-28.
Listing NGR: NY2535648322
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