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| meeting house, Scotby | ||
| Scotby Meeting House | ||
| Wetheral Meeting House | ||
| locality:- | Scotby | |
| civil parish:- | Wetheral (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | meeting house | |
| locality type:- | quaker meeting | |
| coordinates:- | NY44175506 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4455 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY45 | |
| references:- | Butler 1978 |
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 BQF38.jpg (taken 11.3.2009)  BQF39.jpg (taken 11.3.2009) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 24 5) |
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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 / Grave Yard" |
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| evidence:- | text:- placename:- Scotby Meeting House placename:- Wetheral Meeting House |
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| source data:- | : : Quaker Administrative History "SCOTBY, Cumb, after 1974 Cumbr ... NY442550" "1668-1740 ... Burgh (Moorhouse) MM" "1740-1913 ... Carlisle MM" "WETHERAL, Cumb, after 1974 Cumbr ... see SCOTBY" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Backhouse 1773 placename:- Scotby 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. BKH2Crls.jpg labelled:- "Scotby / 0.4" meeting day Wednesday item:- private collection : 224 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | drawing:- Butler 1978 placename:- Scotby Meeting House |
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| source data:- | Scotby 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 enlargePR1485.jpg item:- private collection : 377 Image © 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 / / / WETHERAL / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 77732 / NY4417355062" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Disused Quaker Meeting House. 1718, for the Borough, later Carlisle Monthly Meeting. Sandstone footings, brick walls, sandstone dressings and stone-slate roof. 1 storey and 3 bays: a typical simple meeting house of this period. Sandstone plinth course, with walls of English garden wall bond brickwork. Plain squared dressings to entrance and windows: sash windows with glazing bars. No internal fittings as building not used as a meeting house since 1913. Graveyard, to south, has unusual oval grave markers (about 19) dating between 1830 and 1896. Drawings and description in; David M Butler, Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties, 1978, p.7-9." |
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 BQF40.jpg (taken 11.3.2009) |
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| hearsay:- |
The quaker meeting house was built on the Wetheral road corner, 1718. A burial ground
adjoins. Early broken pillar gravestones have been moved to the side of the plot,
around a new lawn. |
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