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The Blue Idol Meeting House, Historic Building Record |
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Architectural History Practice Ltd unpublished report series
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The Blue Idol Meeting House is a farmhouse of c.1580 which was acquired by a group of Quakers including William Penn in the early 169os. It was extended in 1934-5 by Hubert Lidbetter. The site includes a small attached burial ground and a medieval hovel barn. The meeting house is of exceptional significance. Evidential value: As a sixteenth-century building which retains original fabric and historic fittings, the meeting house has exceptional evidential value. Historical value: The meeting house has strong associations with the origins of Quakerism and in particular with William Penn, Quaker leader and founder of Pennsylvania. It has exceptional historical value. Aesthetic value: The older part of the building is a timber-framed building whose pattern and patina of age lends the meeting house high aesthetic value. The 1930s extension in a vernacular idiom has perhaps slightly less aesthetic value. Communal value: The building has exceptional communal value as one of the best-known Quaker meeting house and as a focus for Quakerism and the local community. It has exceptional communal value. |
Author: |
Johanna Roethe
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Publisher: |
Architectural History Practice Ltd
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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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The Blue Idol Meeting House |
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West Sussex |
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Horsham |
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THAKEHAM |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 510739, 123125 (Easting, Northing)
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architec1-241916 |
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01 Feb 2018 |