Friends Meeting House is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1965. Meeting house. 4 related planning applications.
Friends Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- solitary-wicket-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1965
- Type
- Meeting house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SE 20 NW PENISTONE ROAD High Flatts 4/48 Friends Meeting House 29.3.65 G.V. II
Quaker Meeting House. Probably early C19, though earlier origin. Hammer dressed stone. Quoins. Stone slate roof with paired gutter brackets. Thinly coursed rubble to rear, part of earlier building. Good ashlar stack with cornice. Tall single storey meeting room, two storeys to left. 4 bays with large 24-pane sash windows with crown glass. Square stone porch with single stone slab roof. Double, panelled door with semi-circular fanlight with radial glazing bars. Reset door lintel at rear inscribed: B J E 1697
Interior: the meeting room has contemporary furniture. Loose benches arranged around centre. At front, tiers of fixed benches with fielded panelled backs. Gallery at rear with similar panelled front and shutters, on two cast iron columns. Central wrought iron candelabra.
1st meeting said to have been founded by John Firth circa 1700.
Listing NGR: SE2123207461
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