Friends' Meeting House

ETTINGTON

SP24NE 1912-1/7/70 06/02/52

HALFORD ROAD (West side) Friends' Meeting House (Formerly Listed as: ROAD TO MORETON-IN-MARSH Friend's Meeting House)

II*

Quaker meeting house. 1684-9 with minor alterations of 1894 and c1980 addition. Coursed limestone rubble with flush ironstone quoins and ashlar dressings; steeply pitched graduated slate roof with coped gables. Small rectangular structure. EXTERIOR: south-west front has 2 windows and entrance under continuous timber lintel; entrance to right end has 1976 plank door, replacing original now preserved inside, and heavy door-frame; 3-light windows with heavy pegged frames and leaded glazing; opening lights with wrought-iron window fasteners. 3-light recessed-chamfered-mullioned window to right return, which has alternate narrow rubble courses. INTERIOR: flag floors and C19 wall benches and earlier side benches; 2 original high-backed benches to one end, the higher with enriched bench ends; lower parts of 2 trusses with low collars visible below plaster ceiling. Left return has projecting late C20 breeze-block addition with hipped slate roof with gablet and wide eaves over oriel and recessed porch to right. A good example of a very early meeting house. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 291; An Inventory of Non-con Chapels and Mtg Houses in Cent England: Herefs, Warks and Worcs (extracted from above): 1986-: 233-4).

Listing NGR: SP2677348701