Friends Meeting House, Burford
Description: Friends Meeting House
Grade: II
Date Listed: 12 September 1955
English Heritage Building ID: 421463
OS Grid Reference: SP2514112481
OS Grid Coordinates: 425141, 212481
Latitude/Longitude: 51.8104, -1.6367
Location: High Street, Burford, Oxfordshire OX18 4SJ
Locality: Burford
Local Authority: West Oxfordshire
County: Oxfordshire
Country: England
Postcode: OX18 4SJ
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Listing Text
BURFORD AND UPTON PYTT'S LANE
AND SIGNET (West side)
SP2512 (Enlargement) Friends Meeting House.
7/187
12.9.55
GV II
Quaker Meeting House. 1709, altered c.1730. Coursed rubble, half-hipped
Cotswold stone roof. 2 storeys; gable end to road with a glazing-bar sash
window below the eaves. To North a nail-studded central door with strap-
hinges and stop-chamfered surround. Flanked by tall windows in rebated
surrounds, thick glazing-bar sash windows, internally with square blocks
at the intersections. Blocked window in east gable. Similar window with
rebated surround survives in west gable. Interior:- gallery to south and
west sides (enlarged); attic room (inserted c1730) lit by end windows
perhaps for Women Friends ; lower walls lined with horizontal boarding,
rising on east side at back of former stand.
This Meeting House succeeded one at Barrington (2 miles away); was closed
in 1854, reopened in early C20 for 20 odd years and now in use again since
1955.
C.F. Stell: Non-Conformist Churches and Chapels (RCHM).
Listing NGR: SP2514112481
Source: English Heritage
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