Friends' Meeting House

The Friends' Meeting House in Ettington is a Quaker meeting house built between 1684 and 1689, with minor alterations made in 1894 and an addition around 1980. The building is constructed from coursed limestone rubble, featuring flush ironstone quoins and ashlar dressings. It has a steeply pitched graduated slate roof with coped gables and is a small rectangular structure.

On the south-west front, there are two windows and an entrance beneath a continuous timber lintel. The entrance on the right side has a plank door from 1976, which replaced the original door that is now preserved inside, along with a heavy door-frame. The windows are three-light designs with heavy pegged frames and leaded glazing, and the opening lights have wrought-iron window fasteners. There is also a three-light recessed-chamfered-mullioned window on the right return, which features alternate narrow rubble courses.

Inside, the meeting house has flag floors and 19th-century wall benches, as well as earlier side benches. There are two original high-backed benches at one end, with the higher bench having enriched ends. The lower parts of two trusses with low collars are visible below the plaster ceiling. The left return includes a projecting late 20th-century breeze-block addition with a hipped slate roof, a gablet, and wide eaves over an oriel and a recessed porch on the right.

This building is a notable example of an early meeting house.