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| meeting house, Kendal | ||
| Kendal Meeting House | ||
| Street:- | Stramongate | |
| locality:- | Kendal | |
| civil parish:- | Kendal (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | meeting house | |
| locality type:- | quaker meeting | |
| coordinates:- | SD51779280 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD5192 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD59 | |
| references:- | Butler 1978 |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 38 8) |
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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. "Friends' Meeting House / Burial Ground" |
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| evidence:- | text:- placename:- Kendal Meeting House |
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| source data:- | : : Quaker Administrative History "KENDAL, Westm, after 1974 Cumbr ... SD518928" "1668-1903 ... Kendal MM" "1903- ... Kendal &Sedbergh MM" "see also GILLINGATE (KENDAL)" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Backhouse 1773 placename:- Kendal meeting |
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| 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. BKH2Kndl.jpg labelled:- "Kendal / 7 / 3.6" meeting days Tuesday and Friday nearby market day Saturday item:- private collection : 224 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | drawing:- Butler 1978 placename:- Kendal Meeting House |
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| source data:- | Kendal 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 enlargePR1532.jpg  click to enlargePR1526.jpg  click to enlargePR1525.jpg  click to enlargePR1524.jpg  click to enlargePR1527.jpg item:- private collection : 377 Images © Friends Historical Society |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE / / STRAMONGATE / KENDAL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 75492 / SD5177892808" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Meeting House. 1816 (built partly on site of late C17 Meeting House) by Francis Webster. Altered internally in 1934, extended eastward in 1936. Hammer-dressed limestone blocks on plinth; eaves cornice and blocking course. Graduated slate roofs with parallel ridges; stone end chimneys. 2 storeys, 5 bays. Stramongate elevation: Porch on left has lunette immediately above and 2 semicircular-headed sashes to right; three 1st floor windows are 1934 insertions. New Street elevation: Porch on right has lunette immediately above and 4 semicircular-headed sashes to left; five lst floor sashes. Tall tripartite sash to west return. Both porches have cornices and blocking courses, with panelled inner double doors. All windows have glazing bars. Interior: originally 2 rooms separated by full-height timber partition of 4 elliptical-headed arches carried between panelled pilasters; the arcade was infilled by movable, panelled shutters which were permanently fixed in place when an upper (classroom) floor was inserted on the north side in 1934. Cast-iron columns support the gallery, with turned balusters, carried around 2 sides of the south room." |
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