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Friends Meeting House, Keswick, Historic Building Record |
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Architectural History Practice Ltd unpublished report series
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Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
Statement of Significance: As a meeting house built in 1995, the building has low heritage significance for historical and evidential values, but it has high communal value as a well-used community resource in Keswick and the focus of an active Quaker community. The aesthetic character of the building reflects the local vernacular. Evidential value: A modern building constructed on a green field site, the building and the site have low evidential value. Historical value: The present building replaced a meeting house in the town centre used for most of the twentieth century, and is the latest in a sequence of meeting houses in the Keswick area, where Quakers first met in the mid seventeenth century. The present building and site has low historical value. Aesthetic value: The meeting house is typical of buildings constructed in the Lake District National Park designed to reflect local vernacular traditions, and it fits well into the local street scene. As a modern building it has no historic features, and its aesthetic heritage value is low. Communal value:The meeting house was purpose-built for Quaker and community use and embodies Quaker values of simplicity, sustainability, welcome and community service. These social values give the building high communal value. |
Author: |
Marion Barter
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Publisher: |
Architectural History Practice Ltd
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Lake District National Park HER (OASIS Reviewer)
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2015
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Locations: |
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Cumbria |
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Allerdale |
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Friends Meeting House, Elliot Park |
Parish: |
KESWICK |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 326252, 523546 (Easting, Northing)
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architec1-230068 |
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Created Date: |
01 Feb 2018 |