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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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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 11 9) |
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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' Burial Ground" |
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| evidence:- | text:- placename:- Megs Hill Meeting House |
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| 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" |
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| evidence:- | drawing:- Butler 1978 placename:- Megs Hill Meeting House |
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| 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  click to enlargePR1489.jpg item:- private collection : 377 Image © Friends Historical Society |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Megs Hill Friends Meeting House |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "MEGS HILL FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE / / / KIRKLINTON MIDDLE / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 77929 / NY4364366475" |
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| 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." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| 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" |
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| 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)  BZJ53.jpg (taken 27.9.2013)  BZJ54.jpg Walling, English garden wall bond, badly laid. (taken 27.9.2013)  BZJ55.jpg Stone wall. (taken 27.9.2013)  BZJ56.jpg Stone wall. (taken 27.9.2013) |
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| 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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