Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	place:-	Ulverston Meeting House
	locality:-	Ulverston
	parish	Ulpha parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		meeting house; quaker meeting
	coordinates:-	SD284782
	10Km square:-	SD27
	References	Butler 1978
	1Km square	SD2878
		meeting house, Ulverston -- Ulverston -- Ulpha -- Cumbria / -- 31.7.2009
		meeting house, Ulverston -- Ulverston -- Ulpha -- Cumbria / -- Inscription over the door:- -- 'EX DONO: GF / 1688' -- GF is George Fox -- 31.7.2009
	old map:-	OS County Series (Lan 16)
		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.
		Quaker's Meeting House
		and grave yard
		meeting house; burial ground; quaker burial ground
	date:-	1847=1851
	period:-	19th century, late; 1840s; 1850s
	old print:-	Philip/Wilson 1890s
		The chapel attached to the hall.
		'EX DONO G.F., 1688.'
	date:-	1895
	period:-	19th century, late; 1890s
	old print:-	Waugh 1860
		Print, engraving, George Fox's Chapel, on Swarthmoor, Ulverston Meeting House, Ulverston, Lancashire, published by Alexander Ireland and Co, 22 Market Street, Manchester, 1860.
		On p.33 of Over Sands to the Lakes, by Edwin Waugh.
		printed at bottom:-
		GEORGE FOX'S CHAPEL, ON SWARTHMOOR.
	person:-	: Fox, George
	date:-	1860
	period:-	19th century, late
	old print:-	Jopling 1843
		Print, meeting house, Ulverston, Lancashire, by Charles M Jopling, published by Whittaker and Co, Ave Maria Lane, London and by Stephen Soulby, Ulverston, Cumberland, 1843.
		On p.175 of a Sketch of Furness and Cartmel, by Charles M Jopling.
	date:-	1843
	period:-	19th century, early
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE / / MEETING HOUSE LANE / ULVERSTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 459992 / SD2837876875
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Quaker meeting house. Dated 1688; interior altered 1814; sash windows added 1829; gable wall slated 1843. Roughcast with some sandstone ashlar dressings and some slatehanging, with slate roof. To the left of the single-storey gabled porch are 3 windows with plain reveals and projecting sills lighting the main meeting room. They were inserted in 1829 but now have C20 casements with glazing bars replacing the original glazing bar sashes. To the right of the porch there are 2 windows at both ground-floor and gallery level lighting the former womens' meeting house. All are mullioned and of 2 lights with leaded glazing. Those on the ground floor are cyma-moulded and those on the 1st floor are chamfered and have hoods. The wall of the porch is cut back where it overlaps the left-hand window. The porch has a sandstone plinth and moulded doorway which has a lintel with false 4-centred arch. The lintel has a re-cut inscription: 'EX DONO G.F. [George Fox] 1688'. The inner doorway has a moulded stone surround and studded plank doors. The left-hand gable wall has slatehanging which returns to cover part of the front wall. Projecting from the right-hand gable wall is a chimney stack with offsets. Adjoining to the right is the former stable block, now converted into a meeting room. It has a lower roof which projects forwards at the left to form a canopy over a doorway. A wide doorway towards the right has plain reveals and is now filled by a glazed screen.
		INTERIOR: the main meeting room has a high ceiling with exposed hardwood tie beams. The timber screen at the east end of the meeting room dates from 1814 and has top-hung shutters opening at both ground-floor and gallery level. Between the passageway and the east room there are similar shutters. Both this room and the passageway have stone-flagged floors, and the room has 2 axial main ceiling beams and a fireplace with the remains of moulded jambs.
		HISTORICAL NOTE: George Fox bought the property at Swarthmoor in 1687 from two of Judge Fell's daughters and passed it on to the Friends with instructions on how to build the meeting house, which was registered as a place of worship in 1689. The former stable block was listed on 20/06/72.
		Butler DM: Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties: London: 1978-: 123-5
	district:-	South Lakeland
		listed building
	coordinates:-	SD28377687
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
		photographs
		meeting house, Ulverston -- Ulverston -- Ulpha -- Cumbria / -- Handle on the door to the plot. -- 31.7.2009
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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