Friends Meeting House

The Friends Meeting House is a Quaker meeting house located in Marazion, originally built around 1688 and remodeled in 1742 and again around 1880. The structure features granite rubble walls, with some cob at the rear, and has wooden lintels. The roof is made of scantle slate, gabled to the northwest and hipped to the southeast.

The building has a rectangular, aisle-less plan with a rostrum or pulpit at the east end. The original doorway was in the middle of the south wall but was changed to a window, and a new doorway was cut into the middle of the west gable end in the 19th century. There was likely a gallery at the west end, and a 20th-century extension is present at the front.

The exterior is a single storey with a symmetrical three-window south front. The windows are likely from 1742 and feature paired twelve-pane hornless sashes with wide internally ovolo moulded glazing bars and some crown glass. The former central doorway has a 19th-century copy with thin glazing bars, and there are 19th-century shutters with chamfered stiles and rails. The left gable end has a central doorway with a 19th-century four-panel door in a bowtell-moulded frame, possibly from the 18th century, and a hood supported by shaped brackets. Above the doorway is a 19th-century twelve-pane two-light casement.

Inside, the original rostrum has a simple balustrade with splat column balusters and an ovolo moulded cornice on the handrail and square-on-plan newel posts with ball finials. There is an original settle with shaped ends behind the rostrum, flanked by probably later settles at a lower level on either side. The roof structure dates from 1880, and there is a cobbled path at the west end.

The plan of this meeting house is similar to that of the one at Come-to-Good in Kea, and it likely shared many features before the 19th-century alterations. The 18th-century sashes are particularly notable and rare features.