Friends Meeting House Including Burial Ground Walls

TG5207NW 839-1/12/53

GREAT YARMOUTH, HOWARD STREET SOUTH (East side), No.17

Friends Meeting House including burial ground walls

05/08/74

II

Friends' meeting house. 1692. Rebuilt 1807, on the site of a cell of the Augustinian Priory of Gorleston and re-using some material. Rendered and colourwashed brick under a pantiled roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. West facade with a plinth course and a 6-panelled door to the right under a plain overlight. Two 6/6 horned sashes under segmental heads are set to left at upper level and there are 3 ventilation grilles to the cellar. North return with a cellar grille also and a 6/6 upper sash. South return also with a cellar grille, and, in the apex of the gable, a late C20 3/3 horned sash. To the right is half of a rebated stone arch probably of C15 origin surviving from earlier building. Gabled roof with rebuilt stack on west slope. INTERIOR: main hall with a plank dado and a raised bench to the north end with a panelled screen. At south end is a panelled balcony, now blocked, but with 4 rows of benches behind it at first-floor level. Roof of C20 principals carrying purlins. Undercroft opened out 1979-81. 1807 floor beams overhead. 1979 cast-iron columns and rolled steel joists. West wall with 4 C15 splayed window embrasures with stone jambs and sloping sills. Walls of flint and brick. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: 3 ranges of wall enclose a burial ground to east. North range of flint and brick with rendered coping, east range of brick is rendered over, south range of coursed flints. (Edwin R: Archive at Norfolk Archaeology Unit).

Listing NGR: TG5233307543