Coanwood Friends Meeting House
Coanwood Friends Meeting House | ||
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OS grid reference NY 709 590 | | |
Built | 1760 | |
Built for | Coanwood Quaker Meeting | |
Governing body | Historic Chapels Trust | |
Listed Building – Grade II* | ||
Designated | 24 November 1967 | |
Reference no. | 1042914 | |
Coanwood Friends Meeting House is a redundant
History
The Wigham family was an important family in Northumberland in the 17th and 18th centuries. In about 1734 Cuthbert Wigham joined the
Architecture
Coanwood Friends Meeting House is a single-storey building built on a
The interior is divided into two rooms by a partition containing top-hinged shutters to the right of the entrance. The larger room on the left has a stone-flagged floor, and contains simple wooden benches.[2] There is a central aisle with seven rows of open-backed benches facing to the west. Opposite these and facing them are two rows of benches on a dais; these are sometimes called elders' benches.[4] The benches form "a rare survival of the historic Quaker layout".[1] The smaller room contains a fireplace and a grate with an iron hob. The meeting house stands in a graveyard that contains "typical Quaker gravestones", many of which commemorate members of the Wigham family.[1]
Present day
The meeting house is in an area where there are many walkers' paths. It is normally left unlocked during daylight hours and open to visitors.[1] In September each year the Hexham Quaker Meeting holds a meeting for worship and a family picnic at the meeting house.[4]
See also
- List of chapels preserved by the Historic Chapels Trust
References
- ^ a b c d e Coanwood Friends Meeting House, Historic Chapels Trust, retrieved 3 July 2010
- ^ a b c d Historic England, "Friends' Meeting House, Coanwood (1042914)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 10 July 2013
- ^ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
- ^ a b c d e Coanwood Friends Meeting House, Hexham Quakers, archived from the original on 3 January 2010, retrieved 3 July 2010