Jordans Meeting House is a Grade I listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1958. A 1688 Meeting house. 3 related planning applications.
Jordans Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- far-hall-birch
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1958
- Type
- Meeting house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CHALFONT ST GILES WELDERS LANE 1. 5134 Jordans Meeting House SU 99 SE 2/67 22.12.58
I 2. 1688 (formerly incised on cornice). Red brick, hipped old tile roof with coved cornice. Left hand section containing meeting room is one storeyed with 2 cross mullion diamond lattice casements with flat arches and panelled shutters. Four panel 2 fold door with astragal moulding and oblong 2-light wood mullion fan. Right hand section is 2 storeyed with paired casements. Panelled shutters. Ground floor flat arches. Altered 1717 (incised on brick on north wall). Interior: meeting room has original panelling. Gallery dated 1733. In graveyard immediately outside are buried William Penn and members of his family and Thomas Ellwood (diarist, prominent Quaker and friend of John Mitton). This meeting house by reason of its antiquity and its associations with William Penn and the early Quakers has very great historical interest. RCHM I, 82 Monument 2, and VCH III, p 185.
Listing NGR: SU9745491022
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