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Friends Meeting House, Hammersmith, Historic Building Record |
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Architectural History Practice Ltd unpublished report series
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Abstract: |
A modest design of the mid-1950s by Hubert Lidbetter. The building is scheduled for demolition as part of the King Street Regeneration Project and a new Hammersmith meeting house, the fourth, will be built in a more central location. The present building has a utilitarian external character but an evocative interior of traditional character, giving it an overall medium significance. Evidential value: The building is of post-war date, but has a traditional Quaker character, displayed in features such as the plain design and fitting out, the high level windows and the visibility panel for the doorkeeper. It is of medium evidential value. Historical value: Quaker observance in Hammersmith goes back to the late seventeenth century, but the present building is of post-war date. It is by a Quaker architect of note, and incorporates some historic furnishings. As such it is of medium historical value. Aesthetic value: The building has little external aesthetic appeal, but its evocative interior of traditional character, with good quality furnishings, give it medium aesthetic value. Communal value: The meeting house is not currently greatly used by Friends or the local community groups, and must therefore be regarded as of low communal value. This will change with the building of new premises. |
Author: |
Andrew Derrick
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Publisher: |
Architectural History Practice Ltd
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Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Please note: this record has been validated by-proxy by Historic England.
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Year of Publication: |
2015
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Friends Meeting House, Nigel Playfair Avenue |
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Greater London |
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Hammersmith and Fulham |
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HAMMERSMITH |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 522621, 178433 (Easting, Northing)
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Created Date: |
01 Feb 2018 |