Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| place:- | Wigton Meeting House | |
| locality:- | Wigton | |
| parish |
Wigton parish, once in
Cumberland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| meeting house; quaker meeting | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY25384829 | |
| 10Km square:- |
NY24
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| References |
Butler 1978
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| 1Km square | NY2548 | |
 meeting house, Wigton -- Wigton -- Wigton -- Cumbria / -- 26.7.2008 | ||
 meeting house, Wigton -- Wigton -- Wigton -- Cumbria / -- 26.7.2008 | ||
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE / / WEST ROAD / WIGTON / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72059 / NY2535648322 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Friends Meeting House. Dated 1830 over side entrance, probably by William Alderson. Snecked red sandstone ashlar with heavy cornice and broad angle pilasters on chamfered plinth. Hipped slate roof. Single-storey, 3-bay facade. Large sash windows with glazing bars in eared pilastered surrounds. Flanking incised rendered screen walls have panelled doors in pilastered surrounds, that to left giving access to graveyard and that to right giving access to 2 side entrances under a colonnade on slender cast-iron columns. 2-storey, single-bay extension to right has external stone steps to former upper-floor schoolroom. See David M. Butler, Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties, 1978, pp23-28. | ||
| district:- | Allerdale | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY25354832 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| old map:- |
Backhouse 1773
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| labelled:- | ||
| Wigton / 3.4 | ||
| meeting day Wednesday | ||
| nearby market day Tuesday | ||
| other name:- | Wigton meeting | |
| locality:- | Wigton | |
| locality:- | Wigton | |
| county:- | Cumberland | |
| date:- | 1773 | |
| period:- | 18th century, late; 1770s | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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