Malton Meeting House And Attached Walls Bounding Quaker Burial Ground

The building comprises a Quaker meeting house and associated walls enclosing a burial ground, situated on the north side of Greengate in Malton. The meeting house itself dates to 1823. The southern boundary wall of the burial ground is also dated 1823. Earlier 18th-century walls, originally defining the garden of a previous meeting house, survive to the east and west, while the northern boundary wall was constructed in the 20th century.

The meeting house is built of pink and cream mottled brick in a Flemish bond pattern on a sandstone plinth, with sandstone dressings and a timber cornice to a hipped slate roof. The south-facing boundary wall of the burial ground is of pink and cream mottled brick in English bond. The east and west walls are constructed of orange-red brick in an English garden-wall bond, all topped with stone copings and dressings.

The meeting house has a single tall storey with six bays. The central right-hand side features double doors with grooved, raised, and glazed panels; a blocked square opening with a stone sill sits above the doors. The remaining windows are 24-pane sashes, two to the right of the doors and three to the left, set within a continuous sillband. All window and door openings are finished with flat arches of gauged brick. A scrolled wrought-iron gas bracket is positioned above the door. A moulded eaves cornice encircles the entire building. The rear elevation features four fixed 12-pane windows, also with flat arches and a sillband. The left and right returns incorporate external, square-section chimney stacks centrally located on each wall.

The interior is comprised of two rooms separated by a passage, featuring panelled shutters designed to be opened to create a single large meeting room. Fielded panel doors retain original fittings. An overhead gallery has turned column balusters. The room to the left features raised and fielded dado panelling. Fitted benches line three sides; the fourth side contains a raised dais behind a panelled partition, incorporating a balustrade of short turned column balusters and a moulded rail. The passage and both meeting rooms are fitted with cast-iron ceiling vents within moulded circular surrounds. A datestone above the main door lintel is inscribed with “ANNO DOMINI 1823.”

The design of the meeting house, including the acoustic shuttering in the entrance passage, reflects the influence of William Alexander's "Observations on the Principles of Design for Meeting Houses" (York, 1820), and represents a significant advancement in the design of these buildings.

The burial ground’s southern boundary wall is approximately 30 metres long and 6 metres high, featuring a square-arched gateway with a monolithic lintel supporting cast-iron double gates with spearhead finials. The inner face of the lintel is inscribed with “ANNO DOMINI, 1823.” A boarded door beneath the lintel provides access to the former caretaker's house at number 21. The west wall is approximately 30 metres long, and the east wall is approximately 23 metres long; both walls vary in height, rising to approximately 5 metres and stepped in places. All walls have flat copings. Two slate slabs are attached to the west wall, recording cremations between 1948 and 1972 and 1968 and 1990. A section of the west wall has collapsed.