Friends' Meeting House is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1984. House.

Friends' Meeting House

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kirklees
Country
England
Date first listed
13 January 1984
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SE 12 SE SPENBOROUGH MB QUAKER LANE HIGHTOWN 3/154 No. 19 (Friends' Meeting House)

II

Detached house. Built originally c.1699 and used as a Friends' Meeting House, though very altered in C.19 and with recent refurbishment. Rendered walls. Stone slate roof. Two storeys. Near central door in recent porch. To left and right, both floors, is C.19. 2-light sash window. Outshut to rear.

General Quarter Sessions of the West Riding, held at Wakefield on 11th January 1699 ordered that the newly erected house be recorded as a place of religious worship. The house became the focal point of Quaker activity in the area.

David Blamires, A History of Quakerism in Liversedge & Scholes, c.1974.

Listing NGR: SE1897324082

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