Friends Meeting House

The Friends Meeting House, dated 1830 over the side entrance, is likely designed by William Alderson. It is constructed of snecked red sandstone ashlar and features a heavy cornice and broad angle pilasters on a chamfered plinth. The building has a hipped slate roof and is a single-storey structure with a three-bay facade. It includes large sash windows with glazing bars set in eared pilastered surrounds. Flanking the facade are incised rendered screen walls that contain panelled doors in pilastered surrounds; the door on the left provides access to the graveyard, while the door on the right leads to two side entrances under a colonnade supported by slender cast-iron columns. There is also a two-storey, single-bay extension to the right, which has external stone steps leading to a former upper-floor schoolroom. For further details, see David M. Butler's "Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties," published in 1978, pages 23-28.