Friends Meeting House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1949. Meeting house. 5 related planning applications.
Friends Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- odd-trefoil-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 1949
- Type
- Meeting house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/10/2016
ST 43 NE, 10/70
STREET C.P., HIGH STREET (North side), Friends Meeting House
8.11.49
G.V.
II
Quaker Meeting House. 1850 on an earlier site, by J. Francis Cotterell of Bath. Blue lias ashlar, that to plinth quarry-faced, emphasised rusticated quoins, moulded stone eaves cornice, hipped slate roof with wide eaves, louvred square cupola to roof ridge with pyramidal lead capping and spirelet. Rectangular on plan, plain elevations. Two storey frontages; entrance frontage of 2:3 bays, tall 20-pane sash windows with cambered heads. Door opening between the bay sets; paired 2-panelled doors; projecting Tuscan portico, triangular pediment; further door opening to right, 4-panelled door; 16-pane sash windows with cambered heads on 2 floors to frontage facing High Street; door opening, 4-panelled door. Simple interior divided into 2 large rooms with panelled divider, room to North with bench, dado panelling.
(McGarvie M., Guide to Historic Street, (unpublished))
Listing NGR: ST4850236935
Detailed Attributes
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