Friends Meeting House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1967. Meeting house. 2 related planning applications.
Friends Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-rafter-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1967
- Type
- Meeting house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NY 2548 WIGTON WEST STREET (North side) Wigton
14/104 Friends Meeting House 1/4/67 II
Friends Meeting House. Dated 1830 over side entrance, probably by William Alderson. Snecked red sandstone ashlar with heavy cornice and broad angle pilasters on chamfered plinth. Hipped slate roof. Single-storey, 3-bay facade. Large sash windows with glazing bars in eared pilastered surrounds. Flanking incised rendered screen walls have panelled doors in pilastered surrounds, that to left giving access to graveyard and that to right giving access to 2 side entrances under a colonnade on slender cast-iron columns. 2-storey, single-bay extension to right has external stone steps to former upper-floor schoolroom. See David M. Butler, Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties, 1978, pp23-28.
Listing NGR: NY2535648322
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