Description

SD 57 SW
4/282

YEALAND CONYERS
YEALAND ROAD
Quaker Meeting House

(Formerly listed as Friends Meeting House)

2.5.1968

II*
Quaker Meeting House, 1692 with mid C18th alterations. Roughcast rubble with slate roof. One storey with gallery. To the left of the porch are 2 sashed windows with glazing bars and plain stone surrounds with narrow cyma mouldings. To the right of the porch is a fixed window with one rebated and chamfered jamb. Above, lighting the gallery, is a rebated and chamfered surround for a former 2-light window. The porch has a gable coping with kneelers and an outer chamfered doorway with segmental head dated '1692'. The two inner doorways have chamfered surrounds and doors with raised and fielded panels. The right-hand gable, now partly covered by a modern extension, has a projecting stack with moulded weathering. The rear (north) wall has 2 windows and a doorway, all with plain reveals. Interior has raised and fielded panelling and eastern gallery with a panelled front. An early and complete example of a meeting house in the north of England.

Listing NGR: SD5038474425

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17531734

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)