Amersham Meeting House
| Amersham Meeting House | |
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_-_geograph.org.uk_-_722134.jpg) The building in 2008 | |
  Location within Buckinghamshire | |
General information | |
| Type | Friends meeting house |
| Location | Whielden Street, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Coordinates | 51°39′51″N 0°37′08″W / 51.6641°N 0.6190°W |
| Year built | 1689 |
| Renovated | Late 18th century (added) |
| Website | |
| caqm | |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name | Friends' Meeting House and Whielden Cottage |
| Designated | 22 December 1958 |
| Reference no. | 1274183 |
The Amersham Meeting house is a Friends meeting house (a Quaker place of worship) on Whielden Street in Amersham, a market town in the Chiltern Hills of Buckinghamshire, England. It is listed at Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England.[1] Meeting for worship is held on Sundays at 11 am.[2]
The meeting house forms part of an extension to the adjoining Whielden Cottage, which was built around 1600. The cottage was enlarged in 1689 to serve as a meeting house for the Quakers, who had begun to meet in Amersham from the 1660s. The Amersham Quakers received a letter from the early Quaker Isaac Penington in 1667.[3]
The building was further extended and refronted in red brick in the late 18th century. The meeting room is divided into two by a wooden screen with shutters. A large burial ground lies to the north and west of the house.[1]
The library of the Amersham Quakers is registered on LibraryThing.[4]
See also
References
- 1 2 Historic England, "Friends Meeting House and Whielden Cottage (Grade II*) (1274183)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 3 March 2017
- ↑ "Amersham Quakers". Chiltern Quakers. Archived from the original on 21 November 2015. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
- ↑ Isaac Penington to Friends in Amersham (1667): Isaac Penington to Friends in Amersham (1667), accessdate: March 7, 2017
- ↑ LibraryThing: AmershamQsLib | LibraryThing, accessdate: March 7, 2017
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