Friends Meeting House

The Friends Meeting House is a disused Quaker meeting house built in 1718 for the Borough and later used by the Carlisle Monthly Meeting. It features sandstone footings, brick walls, sandstone dressings, and a stone-slate roof. The building is single-storey and consists of three bays, representing a typical simple meeting house from this period. It has a sandstone plinth course and walls constructed of English garden wall bond brickwork. The entrance and windows are adorned with plain squared sandstone dressings, and the sash windows include glazing bars. There are no internal fittings since the building has not been used as a meeting house since 1913. To the south, there is a graveyard containing about 19 unusual oval grave markers that date from 1830 to 1896. Drawings and descriptions of the building can be found in David M Butler's book, "Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties," published in 1978.