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Old Church House, Tirril
Old Church House
Old Meeting House
Tirril Meeting House
locality:-   Tirril
civil parish:-   Sockbridge and Tirril (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   meeting house (once) 
locality type:-   quaker meeting (once) 
coordinates:-   NY50112666
1Km square:-   NY5026
10Km square:-   NY52


photograph
BVL11.jpg (taken 1.10.2011)  
photograph
BVL12.jpg  Date stone:-
"17 33" (taken 1.10.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 7 3) 
source data:-   Maps, 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 Ho. / Grave Yard"

evidence:-   text:- 
placename:-  Tirril Meeting House
source data:-   : : Quaker Administrative History "TIRRIL, Westm, after 1974 Cumbr ... NY501266"
"1668-1862 ... Strickland MM"

evidence:-   old map:- Backhouse 1773
placename:-  Terril meeting
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Map of the Meetings belonging to the Quarterly Meetings of Lancaster, Westmorland, Cumberland, Northumberland, Durham and York, scale about 9 miles to 1 inch, by James Backhouse, engraved by Thomas Kitchin, published by James Backhouse, Darlington, Durham, 1773.
image
BKH2Strc.jpg
labelled:-  "Terril / 0.5"
meeting day Thursday 
item:-  private collection : 224
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, Friends' Meeting House, Tirril, Sockbridge and Tirril, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
image  click to enlarge
HB0747.jpg
Now a house called Old Church House. 
stamped at reverse:-  "HERBERT BELL / Photographer / AMBLESIDE"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS410
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   drawing:- Butler 1978
placename:-  Tirril Meeting House
source data:-   Tirril Meeting House drawn by David Butler and published in Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties by David M Butler, by the Friends Historical Society, 1978
courtesy of David Butler
image  click to enlarge
PR1522.jpg
item:-  private collection : 377
Image © Friends Historical Society

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Old Meeting House
item:-  date stone (1733)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"OLD MEETING HOUSE / / A592 / SOCKBRIDGE AND TIRRIL / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74580 / NY5010626667"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Quaker Meeting House now private house. 1731 but dated 1733 over entrance. Painted roughcast walls, under graduated greenslate roof with painted roughcast chimney stack. Single storey, 3 bays. Off-centre gabled stone porch with plain boarded door in painted stone surround. Sash windows with glazing bars in painted stone surrounds, the centre window a larger casement; some surrounds retain their shutter hinge brackets. Interior: has its original panelled partition. See D. Butler, Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties, 1978, pp90-3, where he says the Meeting House was first used 3 February 1731 and suggests the porch was added 2 years later and hence the date over the entrance. Rear outshut is not of interest."


photograph
BVL13.jpg  Burial ground.
(taken 1.10.2011)  
photograph
BVL14.jpg  Grave stone
(taken 1.10.2011)  


Butler 1978

hearsay:-  
This was a meeting house in 1731; now a private house.

personal
person:-    : Gough, Charles
place:-   burial place
date:-   1805
The enclosure in front, once a cemetery, was where Charles Gough, who died on Helvellyn, was buried in 1805.

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