Amersham Meeting House

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

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. 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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