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meeting house, Sikeside
Sikeside Meeting House
Kirklinton Meeting House
Kirk Levington Meeting House
Border Meeting House
locality:-   Sikeside
civil parish:-   Hethersgill (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   meeting house
locality type:-   quaker meeting
coordinates:-   NY44616649
1Km square:-   NY4466
10Km square:-   NY46
references:-   Butler 1978


photograph
BZJ61.jpg (taken 27.9.2013)  
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BZJ62.jpg (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 Meeting House"

evidence:-   text:- 
placename:-  Kirklinton Meeting House
placename:-  Border Meeting House
placename:-  Kirk Levington Meeting House
placename:-  Sikeside Meeting House
source data:-   : : Quaker Administrative History "KIRKLINTON, Cumb, after 1974 Cumbr ... NY446665"
"c1672-1740 ... Burgh (Moorhouse) MM"
"1740-1913 ... Carlisle MM"
"BORDER, Cumb, after 1974 Cumbr ... see KIRKLINTON"
"KIRK LEVINGTON, Cumb, after 1974 Cumbr ... see KIRKLINTON"
"SIKESIDE, Cumb, after 1974 Cumbr ... see KIRKLINTON"

evidence:-   old map:- Backhouse 1773
placename:-  Kirk Levington meeting
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.
image
BKH2Crls.jpg
labelled:-  "Kirk Levington / 0.4"
meeting day Wednesday 
item:-  private collection : 224
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   drawing:- Butler 1978
placename:-  Sikeside Meeting House
source data:-   Sikeside 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
PR1487.jpg
item:-  private collection : 377
Image © Friends Historical Society

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
item:-  date stone (1736)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE SOUTH EAST OF SIKESIDE / / / HETHERSGILL / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 77889 / NY4461766498"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Barn formerly Friends' Meeting House. Dated 1736, on site of a late C17 Meeting House. Red sandstone ashlar, with shaped cornice; slate roof with coped gables and kneelers. Single storey, 3 bays. Panelled door has round head, with projecting impost blocks and keystone. Sash windows with glazing bars have raised stone surrounds with round heads and projecting keystones. Closed 1913, sold to nearby farm in 1951 and now used as barn with large entrance cut through rear wall. See, David M. Butler, Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties, 1978, p.12-15."

notes:-  
Built 1688; closed 1931.

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