Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| place:- | Eaglesfield Meeting House | |
| locality:- | Eaglesfield | |
| parish |
Dean parish, once in
Cumberland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| meeting house; quaker meeting | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY09322804 | |
| 10Km square:- |
NY02
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| References |
Butler 1978
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| 1Km square | NY0928 | |
![]() meeting house, Eaglesfield -- Eaglesfield -- Dean -- Cumbria / -- 9.3.2012 | ||
| source:- |
OS County Series (Cmd 54)
| |
| County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. | ||
| Friends Meeting House / Grave Yard | ||
| meeting house; burial ground; quaker burial ground | ||
| date:- | 1867=1868 | |
| period:- | 19th century, late; 1860s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE / / / DEAN / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72635 / NY0932528034 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Friends' Meeting House now private house. Inscribed over entrance JOHN BARN GAVE 40£ TO BUILD THIS HOUSE 1711; WITH C20 restoration. Painted roughcast walls, under rebuilt graduated greenslate roof with C20 roof lights; brick chimney stack. Single storey, 3 bays with integral former stable. C20 door in original stone surround and C20 casement windows in 2-light stone-mullioned frames. Further left C20 door. Rear has slated C20 porch and similar 2-light windows. Former stable now with garage doors. See D.M. Butler, Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties, 1978, pp57-60. | ||
| district:- | Allerdale | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY09322803 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| WALL AROUND BURIAL GROUND OF FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE / / / DEAN / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72636 / NY0934928006 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Friends' burial ground wall now garden wall. Dated 1693 over entrance. Limestone rubble. Low wall with irregular rubble coping and side plank door, enclosing garden on 3 sides and joining with Meeting House on 4th side. Walls other than roadside wall are in poor state of repair. Listed for group value with Friends' Meeting House. | ||
| district:- | Allerdale | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY09342800 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| photographs | ||
| meeting house, Eaglesfield -- Eaglesfield -- Dean -- Cumbria / -- Gate to burial ground, -- NY09332800 (at) -- 9.3.2012 | |
| meeting house, Eaglesfield -- Eaglesfield -- Dean -- Cumbria / -- Date stone on gate:- -- '1693' -- 9.3.2012 | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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