Description

CHALFONT ST GILES WELDERS LANE
1.
5134
Jordans Meeting
House
SU 99 SE 2/67 22.12.58

I
2.
1688 (formerly incised on cornice). Red brick, hipped old tile roof with coved
cornice. Left hand section containing meeting room is one storeyed with 2 cross
mullion diamond lattice casements with flat arches and panelled shutters. Four
panel 2 fold door with astragal moulding and oblong 2-light wood mullion fan.
Right hand section is 2 storeyed with paired casements. Panelled shutters.
Ground floor flat arches. Altered 1717 (incised on brick on north wall). Interior:
meeting room has original panelling. Gallery dated 1733.
In graveyard immediately outside are buried William Penn and members of his
family and Thomas Ellwood (diarist, prominent Quaker and friend of John Mitton).
This meeting house by reason of its antiquity and its associations with William
Penn and the early Quakers has very great historical interest.
RCHM I, 82 Monument 2, and VCH III, p 185.

Listing NGR: SU9745491022

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17527062

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)