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Quaker Meeting House, Salisbury, Historic Building Record |
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Architectural History Practice Ltd unpublished report series
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Abstract: |
The meeting house is a picturesque structure probably built in the 1830s and enlarged in the 1850s. For much of its life the building was a villa but was absorbed into the adjacent hospital in the 1920s and has been owned by Friends since 2003 and converted for Quaker use. The building is listed Grade II and has high overall heritage significance. Evidential value: The building has been the subject of a very thorough refurbishment and much of the fabric has been renewed but there is still evidence of past functions and the building is of medium evidential value. Historical value: The development history of the building has not been fully elucidated, despite a heritage study, but is clearly of considerable interest. It may have been built as a lodge, then enlarged into a villa. For at least some of its life, the building was associated with the Fisherton Asylum, a pioneering mental institution. The building has high historical value. Aesthetic value: The treatment of the main front of the building has obvious links to the cottages ornées popular in the first decades of the nineteenth century and the building is certainly of medium aesthetic value. Communal value: The building has been used as a Quaker meeting house since 2010, with additional use by local community groups. From the 1920s it was part of the adjacent hospital. The building has high communal value. |
Author: |
N Burton
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Publisher: |
Architectural History Practice Ltd
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Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Wiltshire and Swindon HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2016
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Quaker Meeting House, Wilton Road |
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Wiltshire |
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Wiltshire |
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SALISBURY |
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England |
Grid Reference: 413572, 130393 (Easting, Northing)
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architec1-266629 |
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Created Date: |
18 Aug 2017 |