Friends Meeting House is a Grade II* listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1955. Quaker meeting house.
Friends Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- nether-cloister-root
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1955
- Type
- Quaker meeting house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SP4635 ADDERBURY HORN HILL ROAD (West side) Adderbury West 6/75 Friends Meeting House 08/12/55 (Formerly listed as Friends Meeting House, Bloxham Road)
GV II* Quaker meeting house. 1675 for Bray Doyley. Coursed squared marlstone with some ashlar dressings and wooden lintels; concrete plain-tile roof with rebuilt ashlar gable stack. Single range. One storey plus loft galleries. Symmetrical front has a central doorway with double doors flanked by large 3-light leaded casements, all with stop-chamfered lintels; right end and both gables have similar casements. Steep-pitched roof has stone gable parapets with moulded projecting kneelers, and has the stack to left with a renewed datestone inscribed "1675"; central gabled dormer has a moulded cornice above a 2-light leaded casement. Interior: stone-paved floor with a dais along the rear wall; C18 matchboard dado with fixed perimeter benches; winder stair leading to a 3-sided gallery carried on chamfered beams with a simple slat balustrade. The interior is complete with late C17/early C18 pine benches and represents an unusual survival. (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol IX, p12; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p415)
Listing NGR: SP4651835302
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