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Quaker Meeting House, Welwyn Garden City |
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Architectural History Practice Ltd unpublished report series
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Abstract: |
As first built in 1926 to the designs of H. Clapham Lander, an architect prominent in the Garden City movement, the meeting house was a simple and pleasing building but it has been very considerably enlarged in a way which has obscured much of its original character, although the original meeting room survives. The meeting house is of low to medium heritage value. Evidential value: The meeting house dates from 1925/6 and is of low evidential value. Historical value: The building was erected on a new site to serve a new meeting and in itself is of low historical value. Aesthetic value: H. Clapham Lander's original design was simple and not without appeal, but his building has been swamped by later additions which make the whole of low aesthetic value. The meeting room alone is of medium aesthetic value. Communal value: The building has been in continuous use by Quakers and other local community groups for nearly ninety years and is of high communal value. |
Author: |
N Burton
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Publisher: |
Architectural History Practice Ltd
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Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Hertfordshire HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2015
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Quaker Meeting House, Handside Lane |
County: |
Herefordshire |
District: |
Welwyn Hatfield |
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WELWYN GARDEN CITY |
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England |
Grid Reference: 523149, 212617 (Easting, Northing)
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01 Feb 2018 |