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| Rookhow, Colton | ||
| Rookhow | ||
| Rookhow Meeting House | ||
| Rusland Meeting House | ||
| Colton Meeting House | ||
| locality:- | Rusland (?) | |
| civil parish:- | Colton (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | meeting house | |
| locality type:- | quaker meeting | |
| coordinates:- | SD33238954 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD3389 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD38 | |
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 BND11.jpg The main building. (taken 2.2.2007) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 8 5) placename:- Rook How |
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| 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. |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 8) placename:- Abbot Oak |
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| 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. "Abbot Oak / Quakers' Meeting Ho." |
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| evidence:- | text:- placename:- Rookhow Meeting House placename:- Colton Meeting House placename:- Rusland Meeting House |
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| source data:- | : : Quaker Administrative History "ROOKHOW, Lancs, after 1974 Cumbr ... NY332895" "Meeting house built for the holding of monthly meetings only by Swarthmore MM" "COLTON, Cumb, after 1974 Cumbr ... see ROOKHOW" "RUSLAND, Lancs, after 1974 Cumbr ... see ROOKHOW" |
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| evidence:- | drawing:- Butler 1978 placename:- Rookhow Meeting House |
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| source data:- | Rookhow 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  click to enlargePR1542.jpg  click to enlargePR1543.jpg item:- private collection : 377 Images © Friends Historical Society |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Rook How Friends' Meeting House |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "ROOK HOW FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE AND COTTAGE / / / COLTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 421771 / SD3322389542" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Meeting house and house. Date 1725 on door latch and spice cupboard door. Roughcast stone with slate roof. 2 storeys, 5 bays, the 3rd bay projects as 2-storey gabled porch, the 1st 2 bays are single storey. Most windows have wooden mullions chamfered to inside, of 2 lights to windows flanking entrance and to 5th bay, of 3 lights to 1st floor of 3rd bay and to 4th bay; most, except for 4th and 5th bays of ground floor, have leaded glazing with rectangular quarries. 1st 2 bays have 40-pane sashes. Segmental-headed entrance has ledged and battened door with strap hinges and 5 three-sided steps. Gable-end stack with rounded shaft. Later lean-to porch to right return. Rear has casement windows to 2 bays to left hand end with central cross-mullion stair window with intermediate bars and leaded glazing, diamond quarries. Interior of porch has stair to former gallery and entrances to meeting house and house; that to meeting house has decorative ironwork to latch; including date. Meeting house has bench to dais and wall supports to other benches; now removed. Gallery on 2 round timber posts has balustrade, with timber partitioning dating from early C20 when gallery was converted to bedroom. House has plank and muntin partitions, with moulding to muntins, to ground and 1st floors; 2-panel doors; dog-leg stair. Spice cupboard door has date and H hinges; hat pegs to ground-floor room. A well preserved meeting house with house attached, also well preserved." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "STABLE TO NORTH EAST OF ROOK HOW MEETING HOUSE / / / COLTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 421773 / SD3325089554" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Former stables. c.1725. Stone rubble with slate roof. Barn doors under pentice with former entrance with timber lintel to left, with inserted window. Right return has entrance with windows to right and above with small-paned fixed glazing. Window to left gable end. Interior has inserted floor at one end, with some partitioning to upper level." |
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| hearsay:- |
I am not clear which of the buildings on the site is the meeting house. |
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| Rookhow was built 1725 for Monthly Meetings, and is still in use. The room adjoining
is known as the Friends' Kitchen, where a 'monster kettle' hung in a corner of the
'quaint open fireplace'. |
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