Friends Burial Ground To North Of High Sunbrick Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 March 1990. A C17 Burial ground.
Friends Burial Ground To North Of High Sunbrick Farm
- WRENN ID
- brooding-spire-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 March 1990
- Type
- Burial ground
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ALDINGHAM SUNBRICK SD 27 SE Friends' Burial Ground to 19/28 north of High Sunbrick Farm II
Burial Ground. 1st buried 1648. Stone rubble. Walls approx. 2m high enclose area of 27m square. North wall has coping with upright stones and entrance with flat slab over, and short walls projecting each side to south side, probably a leant-to porch. Rock outcrop to north side of ground has inscription, C19 or C20, recording its history. Between 1648 and 1767, 227 Friends were buried here; the most notable of these was Margaret Fox, a pioneer of the Society of Friends. In 1669 she took as her 2nd husband George Fox, the founder of the Society, and died in 1702.
Listing NGR: SD2861973913
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