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meeting house, Megs Hill
Megs Hill Meeting House
Kirklinton Meeting House
Hetherside Meeting House
New Close Meeting House
locality:-   Megs Hill
locality:-   Hetherside
civil parish:-   Kirklinton Middle (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   meeting house
locality type:-   quaker meeting
locality type:-   burial ground
locality type:-   quaker burial ground
coordinates:-   NY43656646
1Km square:-   NY4366
10Km square:-   NY46
references:-   Butler 1978


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BZJ57.jpg (taken 27.9.2013)  
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BZJ58.jpg  Gateway.
(taken 27.9.2013)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 11 9) 
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' Burial Ground"

evidence:-   text:- 
placename:-  Megs Hill Meeting House
source data:-   : : Quaker Administrative History "MEGS HILL, Cumb, after 1974 Cumbr ... NY436665"
"Built 1749 within the compass of Carlisle MM for use for funerals only"

evidence:-   drawing:- Butler 1978
placename:-  Megs Hill Meeting House
source data:-   Megs Hill 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
PR1489.jpg
item:-  private collection : 377
Image © Friends Historical Society

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Megs Hill Friends Meeting House
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MEGS HILL FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE / / / KIRKLINTON MIDDLE / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 77929 / NY4364366475"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Implement store for Hetherside Farm, formerly Friends Meeting House. 1749. English garden wall bond brickwork, asbestos sheet roof. Single storey, 2 bays. C19 entrance, formerly window, has chamfered sandstone surround and plank door. Segmental brick arches to small unglazed windows. Left end wall, where original entrance was, has enlarged C20 opening. Rear wall has 4 supporting brick buttresses of C19. This was used only for burial services for the adjoining burial ground. The regular Meeting House was at Sikeside, 1/2 mile east. See, David M Butler, Quaker Meeting Bouses of the Lake Counties, 1978, p.15-16."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"WALLS AROUND QUAKER BURIAL GROUND ADJOINING AND EAST OF MEGS HILL MEETING HOUSE / / / KIRKLINTON MIDDLE / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 77930 / NY4366766471"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Walls enclosing rectangular burial ground. 1689 with C18 and C19 repairs. Sandstone rubble to waist height, with south-west plank entrance gate. See, David M Butler, Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties, 1978, p.15-16."


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BZJ52.jpg (taken 27.9.2013)  
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BZJ53.jpg (taken 27.9.2013)  
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BZJ54.jpg  Walling, English garden wall bond, badly laid.
(taken 27.9.2013)  
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BZJ55.jpg  Stone wall.
(taken 27.9.2013)  
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BZJ56.jpg  Stone wall.
(taken 27.9.2013)  

notes:-  
It is said that when the roof fell in it was discovered that the slates had been pinned in place with sheep bones, not nails.

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