Salisbury Quaker Meeting House

Quaker Meeting House, built as a villa in the mid-C19; later nurses’ accommodation for Old Manor Hospital; altered and converted to use as Meeting House in 2003-10.

MATERIALS: painted stucco over brick, under slate roofs. Extension in reconstituted stone.

PLAN: L-plan, with main range to the north and long range to the east end extending to the south.

EXTERIOR: the building is single storey to centre and right of the main elevation, with a two-storey section to the left. The two-storey range has a bowed, projecting bay with overhanging first floor, carried on Tuscan columns. The bay has a hipped, slate roof with flat eaves, and a rectangular brick ridge stack behind. The windows are pointed margin-glazed casements, one to the ground floor and three to the first floor in moulded flush-pointed frames. Extending westwards is an irregular three-bay, single-storey range with a low-pitched, hipped slate roof, the wall carried up on the wide, western bay into a parapet with moulded coping. The two central bays have paired sashes in a moulded four-centred arched frame, and to its right, a door in similar surround, with fanlight. To the right, a timber, canted bay window, which is later, but with similar arched lights. The wide bay to the west end has a single light, of similar type. The western return parapet is panelled, and is swept to the corners, with three rectangular gable end stacks. It has two cambered-headed sashes with glazing bars. The rear, south elevation has a canted bay window with a parapet to the left, and a central section with two round-headed full-length sashes with glazing bars. A glass pentice roof carried on tapering iron columns extends across the central section. The eastern return extends southwards in two storeys, with a modified central section and an early C21 extension to the southern end, in reconstituted stone. The fenestration is irregular and includes a doorway and entrance to the flats within the modern extension.

INTERIOR: the main interior spaces are a large entrance lobby filling the centre of the building and the meeting room which occupies the west end. This is a wholly modern space with windows in two sides and skylights in the raised centre of the ceiling. The first floor of the two-storey section is arranged as a flat.