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Friends Meeting House, Aylesbury, Historic Building Record |
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Architectural History Practice Ltd unpublished report series
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Abstract: |
An early eighteenth-century meeting house, tucked away behind frontage buildings in the historic core of Aylesbury. The Meeting House is of high heritage significance. Evidential value: The meeting house was sympathetically restored in 1933 and 2010, and retains much evidence of its original and historic construction, detailing and fitting out, all of high evidential (and archaeological) value. The attached burial ground is also of high value, despite the lack of marked burials. Historical value: As a meeting house in use (with one long interruption) since the early eighteenth century, behind buildings of possibly earlier date, with an attached burial ground, the building and site are of high historical value. Aesthetic value: The tile roof, eighteenth-century brickwork and joinery and the atmospheric interior fitted out with dado panelling and fixed seating, are all of typical meeting house character, and of high aesthetic value. This value is enhanced by the setting, hidden away behind historic frontages in the town centre. Communal value: The buildings and site are of high communal value for their history of Quaker witness and other local uses, and for the facilities they continue to offer. |
Author: |
Andrew Derrick
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Publisher: |
Architectural History Practice Ltd
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Other Person/Org: |
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, Rickfords Hill |
County: |
Buckinghamshire |
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Aylesbury Vale |
Parish: |
AYLESBURY |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 481797, 213693 (Easting, Northing)
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architec1-241004 |
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Created Date: |
01 Feb 2018 |