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place:- Eaglesfield Meeting House
locality:- Eaglesfield
parish Dean parish, once in Cumberland
county:- Cumbria
meeting house; quaker meeting
coordinates:- NY09322804
10Km square:- NY02
References Butler 1978

1Km square NY0928

photograph

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
tiny photograph, 
button to large meeting house, Eaglesfield -- Eaglesfield -- Dean -- Cumbria / -- Gate to burial ground, -- NY09332800 (at) -- 9.3.2012
tiny photograph, 
button to large meeting house, Eaglesfield -- Eaglesfield -- Dean -- Cumbria / -- Date stone on gate:- -- '1693' -- 9.3.2012

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