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Friends Meeting House, Airton, Historic Building Record |
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Architectural History Practice Ltd unpublished report series
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Abstract: |
Airton meeting house has high significance as a good example of a vernacular Yorkshire Quaker meeting house, with fittings dating from the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century. It has an attractive village setting with a contemporary burial ground and attached cottage, and a refurbished Barn available for lettings. Evidential value: The buildings and burial ground have high evidential value, and there may have been earlier buildings on this site. Historical value: The meeting house has high historical value as a rural meeting house associated with local weavers William and Alice Ellis who gave the building to the meeting and are buried here. Aesthetic value: The building has high significance for its aesthetic value as a good example of stone meeting house built in the local vernacular style, and retaining some original fittings in a little-altered interior. The burial ground and the stone wall with bench enhance the setting of the building. Communal value: The meeting house is used for worship by a small group of local Quakers and is also the only community space available in the village and local area, so it has high communal value. |
Author: |
Marion Barter
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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: |
2016
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Locations: |
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Friends Meeting House, Airton |
Parish: |
AIRTON |
District: |
Craven |
County: |
North Yorkshire |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 390307, 459215 (Easting, Northing)
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architec1-267405 |
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Created Date: |
28 Nov 2016 |