Amersham Meeting House

The Amersham Meeting House in March 2008.
The meeting room of Amersham Meeting House in 2017

The Amersham Meeting house is a Friends meeting house (a Quaker place of worship) on Whielden Road in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. It is listed Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England.[1] The meeting for worship is held on Sundays at 11 am.[2]

The meeting house forms part of an extension to the adjoining cottage, Whielden Cottage, which was built c. 1600. The cottage was extended in 1689 to serve as a Quaker meeting house for the Quakers who had begun to meet in Amersham from the 1660s. The Amersham Quakers received a letter from the noted early Quaker Isaac Penington in 1667.[3]

It was 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 is situated to the north and west of the house.[1]

The library of the Amersham Quakers is registered on LibraryThing.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Historic England, "Friends Meeting House and Whielden Cottage (1274183)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 3 March 2017
  2. ^ "Amersham Quakers". Chiltern Quakers. Archived from the original on 21 November 2015. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  3. ^ Isaac Penington to Friends in Amersham (1667): Isaac Penington to Friends in Amersham (1667), accessdate: March 7, 2017
  4. ^ LibraryThing: AmershamQsLib | LibraryThing, accessdate: March 7, 2017

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