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Friends Meeting House, Beccles, historic building record |
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Architectural History Practice Ltd unpublished report series
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Abstract: |
This modest meeting house has high significance for heritage values as a centre of religious and community activity in Beccles for over two centuries, although its architectural interest is low because of early twentieth century alterations. Evidential Value: Little is known of the history of the site of the meeting house before it was given to the Quakers in 1745 but the former burial ground and to a lesser extent the altered fabric of the building have potential to yield evidence about the building construction and Quaker life and activity. Building and site have high evidential value. Historical Value: The history of Quaker occupation dates back to the 1740s, with some interruptions, though the building itself is now essentially of 1909. The meeting house certainly has high historical value, especially taken together with the adjacent school mission hall. Aesthetic Value: The meeting house is of medium aesthetic value as a simple single-storey Georgian structure, remodelled to create a building essentially of 1909; it has the character of a minor institution of the Edwardian period. Communal Value: The meeting house was built for Quaker meetings and adjoined a Quaker burial ground. The building is now also in community use and is closely associated with the adjacent mission hall which has been used continuously for community purposes for over a century. Because of these spiritual, commemorative and social uses the building and site today have high communal value. |
Author: |
N Burton
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Architectural History Practice Ltd
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Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Suffolk HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2014
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Friends Meeting House, Smallgate |
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Suffolk |
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East Suffolk |
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BECCLES |
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England |
Grid Reference: 642249, 290398 (Easting, Northing)
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architec1-231669 |
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01 Feb 2018 |