List of Quaker meeting houses
This is a list of Quaker meeting houses. Numerous Quaker meeting houses are individually notable, either for their congregations or events or for architecture of their historic buildings. A number of United Kingdom ones are registered as listed buildings, and a number in the United States are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In Australia
In France
Meeting house, Congénies
- Meeting house, Congénies
In the United Kingdom
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Ifield Friends Meeting House, one of the oldest purpose-built Quaker buildings in the world
Britain Yearly Meeting is the organization of Quakers in England, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. Several meeting houses have been listed for their architectural merit. Notable individual meeting houses include:
- Adderbury Meeting House, Oxfordshire, listed Grade II*[1]
- Amersham Meeting House (1689), Buckinghamshire, listed Grade II*
- Briggflatts Meeting House (1675), Cumbria, second oldest in England
- Brighton Friends Meeting House (1805), East Sussex
- Farfield Friends Meeting House (1689), West Yorkshire, a former Quaker meeting house
- Finchley Meeting House (1967), London[2]
- Friends Meeting House, Come-to-Good (1710), Cornwall
- Ifield Friends Meeting House (1676), West Sussex, listed Grade I
- Jordans Meeting House (1688), Buckinghamshire
- Leek Quaker Meeting (1848), Staffordshire[3]
- Littlehampton Friends Meeting House, West Sussex, listed Grade II*
- Osmotherley Friends Meeting House (1723), North Yorkshire, listed Grade II
- Quakers Friars
- Stafford Quaker Meeting (1730), Staffordshire, a listed building[4]
- Uttoxeter and Burton Quaker Meeting (1706), Staffordshire[5]
- Warwick Meeting House, Warwickshire, listed Grade II*[6]
Former meeting houses
Several meeting houses are no longer in use by friends, but are still listed buildings:
In the United States
See also Friends meeting houses in Pennsylvania
- Abington Friends Meeting House, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania[9]
- Alloways Creek Friends Meetinghouse, Hancock's Bridge, Lower Alloways Creek Township, Salem County, New Jersey[10]
- Amawalk Friends Meeting House, New York
- Amesbury Friends Meeting House, Massachusetts
- Apostolic Faith Mission (Brooklyn), New York
- Apponegansett Meeting House, Massachusetts
- Appoquinimink Friends Meetinghouse, Odessa, Delaware[11]
- Arch Street Friends Meeting House, Pennsylvania
- Arney's Mount Friends Meetinghouse and Burial Ground, Burlington County, New Jersey[12]
- Beekman Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery, LaGrangeville, New York
- Benjaminville Friends Meeting House and Burial Ground, Illinois
- Bethesda Meeting House, Maryland
- Birmingham Friends Meetinghouse, Pennsylvania
- Birmingham Orthodox Meeting House, Birmingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania
- John Bowne House, New York
- Bradford Friends Meetinghouse (Marshallton Meeting House), Marshallton, West Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania[13]
- Brooklyn Friends Meetinghouse and School, Downtown Brooklyn, New York, New York
- Caln Meeting House, Caln Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania[14]
- Camden Friends Meetinghouse, Delaware
- Cane Creek Friends Meeting, North Carolina
- Catawissa Friends Meetinghouse, Pennsylvania
- Centre Meeting and Schoolhouse, Delaware
- Chappaqua Friends Meeting House, Westchester County, NY built in 1754[15]
- Chester Friends Meetinghouse, Chester, Pennsylvania
- Chichester Friends Meetinghouse, near Boothwyn, Upper Chichester Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania[16]
- Clinton Corners Friends Church, Clinton Corners, Dutchess County, New York
- Colora Meetinghouse, Colora, Cecil County, Maryland
- Conanicut Friends Meetinghouse, Conanicut Island, Jamestown, Newport County, Rhode Island[17]
- Concord Friends Meetinghouse, Concordville, Delaware County, Pennsylvania[18]
- Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House, east of Colerain, Belmont County, Ohio
- Cornwall Friends Meeting House, New York
- Creek Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery, New York
- Cropwell Friends Meeting House, New Jersey
- Crum Elbow Meeting House and Cemetery, East Park, Dutchess County, New York[19]
- Deer Creek Friends Meetinghouse, Darlington, Harford County, Maryland[20]
- Deep River Friends Meeting House and Cemetery, High Point, North Carolina
- Dover, NH Friends Meetinghouse, Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire[21]
- East Blackstone Friends Meetinghouse, Massachusetts
- East Hoosac Quaker Meetinghouse, Adams, Berkshire County, Massachusetts[22]
- East Nottingham Friends Meetinghouse or Brick Meetinghouse, Rising Sun, Cecil County, Maryland[23]
- Easton Friends North Meetinghouse, Middle Falls in Washington County, New York
- Evesham Friends Meeting House, Mount Laurel Township, Burlington County, New Jersey[24]
- Frankford Friends Meeting House, Frankford neighborhood, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[25]
- Free Quaker Meetinghouse, Pennsylvania
- Friends Church (Maryville, Tennessee), Tennessee
- Friends Meeting House and Cemetery, Little Compton, Rhode Island
- Friends Meeting House and Cemetery, Rhode Island
- Friends Meetinghouse (Casco, Maine), Maine
- Friends Meetinghouse (Dover, New Jersey), New Jersey
- Friends Meetinghouse (Jamestown, Rhode Island), Rhode Island[26]
- Friends Meetinghouse (Uxbridge, Massachusetts), Massachusetts
- Friends Meetinghouse (Wilmington, Delaware), Delaware[27]
- Friends Meetinghouse (Mount Pleasant, Ohio), Ohio
- Friends Meetinghouse and School, New York
- Friends Spring Meeting House, North Carolina
- Great Friends Meeting House, Rhode Island
- Green Plain Monthly Meetinghouse, Ohio
- Greenfield Preparative Meeting House, Grahamsville, Sullivan County, New York
- Hockessin Friends Meetinghouse, Delaware
- Honey Creek Friends' Meetinghouse, Iowa
- Hopewell Meeting House, Clear Brook, near Winchester, Virginia[28]
- Horsham Friends Meeting, Pennsylvania
- Jericho Friends Meeting House Complex, Jericho, Nassau County, New York[29]
- Little Egg Harbor Friends Meeting House,
- Little Falls Meetinghouse, Fallston, Harford County, Maryland[30]
- Live Oak Friends Meeting House, located at 1318 West 26th Street, Houston, Texas this building is note for its Skyspace by artist James Turrell
- Long Plain Friends Meetinghouse, Massachusetts
- Makefield Meeting, Pennsylvania
- Maple Grove Friends Church, Maine
- Matinecock Friends Meetinghouse, New York
- Merion Friends Meeting House, Merion Station, Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania[31]
- Miami Friends Meeting, Miami, Florida
- Middletown Friends Meetinghouse, Lima, Pennsylvania
- Mill Creek Friends Meetinghouse, Newark, New Castle County, Delaware
- Moorestown Friends School and Meetinghouse, New Jersey
- Neck Meetinghouse and Yard, Maryland
- New York Yearly Meeting, New York
- Newton Friends' Meetinghouse, New Jersey
- Newtown Friends Meetinghouse, Newtown Township, Pennsylvania
- Nine Partners Meeting House and Cemetery, New York
- North Street Friends Meetinghouse, New York
- Oblong Friends Meeting House, Pawling, Dutchess County, New York New York[32]
- Old Haverford Friends Meetinghouse, founded 1683, Havertown, (Haverford Township, Delaware County), Pennsylvania.
- Old Kennett Meetinghouse, Kennett Township near Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania[33]
- Old Quaker Meeting House (Flushing, New York), New York
- Old Town Friends' Meetinghouse also known as Aisquith Street Meeting, Baltimore Meeting or Patapsco, Baltimore, Maryland[34]
- Orlando Friends Meeting, Orlando, Florida
- Orthodox Meetinghouse, Pennsylvania
- Oswego Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery, New York
- Parkersville Friends Meetinghouse, Pennsylvania
- Pembroke Friends Meetinghouse, Pembroke, Plymouth County, Massachusetts[35]
- Pipe Creek Friends Meetinghouse, Maryland
- Pittsburgh Friends Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Plymouth Friends Meetinghouse, Pennsylvania
- Portsmouth Friends Meetinghouse Parsonage and Cemetery, Rhode Island
- Poughkeepsie Meeting House (Hooker Avenue), New York
- Poughkeepsie Meeting House (Montgomery Street), New York
- Quaker Meeting House (Peabody Essex Museum), Massachusetts
- Quaker Meeting (Quakertown, New Jersey), New Jersey
- Quaker Meeting-house (New York City), New York
- Quaker Meetinghouse (Adams, Massachusetts), Massachusetts
- Race Street Friends Meetinghouse, Pennsylvania
- Radnor Friends Meetinghouse, Pennsylvania
- Raisin Valley Friends Meetinghouse, Michigan
- Religious Society of Friends Meetinghouse, New Hampshire
- River Meetinghouse, Maine
- Rye Meeting House, New York
- Sandy Spring Friends Meetinghouse, Maryland
- Saylesville Meetinghouse, Rhode Island
- Schuylkill Friends Meeting House, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
- Seaville Friends Meeting House, Seaville community, Upper Township, New Jersey, Cape May County, New Jersey, this 1716-1727 meeting house is the smallest frame Quaker meeting house in the United States.[36]
- Smith Clove Meetinghouse, New York
- Smithfield Friends Meeting House, Parsonage and Cemetery, Rhode Island
- Society of Friends Hall, New York
- South River Friends Meetinghouse, Virginia
- South Starksboro Friends Meeting House and Cemetery, Vermont
- Springfield Friends Meetinghouse, Springfield, Pennsylvania
- Stony Brook Meeting House and Cemetery, New Jersey
- Third Haven Meeting House, Easton, Talbot County, Maryland[37]
- Trenton Friends Meeting House, New Jersey
- Upper Dublin Friends Meeting House, Pennsylvania
- Upper Greenwich Friends Meetinghouse, New Jersey
- Upperville Meeting House, New York
- Uwchlan Meetinghouse, Pennsylvania
- Washington, DC Friends Meeting, Washington, DC
- Warrington Meetinghouse, Pennsylvania
- West Grove Friends Spring Meeting House, Alamance County, NC
- West Nottingham Meetinghouse, Maryland
- Winter Park Friends meeting, Winter Park, Florida
- Woodbury Friends' Meetinghouse, New Jersey
- Woodlawn Quaker Meetinghouse, Virginia
- Wrightstown Friends Meeting Complex, Pennsylvania
- York Meetinghouse, York, York County, Pennsylvania[38]
See also
- Farmington Quaker Crossroads Historic District, Farmington, New York
- Free Quaker Meetinghouse, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Friends meeting house
- Old Quaker Meetinghouse, New York, New York
- Providence Quaker Cemetery and Chapel, Perry, Pennsylvania
- Quaker Farms Historic District, Oxford, Connecticut
- Quaker Hill Historic District (Waterford, Connecticut)
- Quaker Hill Historic District (Wilmington, Delaware)
- Quaker Meeting (Quakertown, New Jersey), New Jersey
- Quaker Street Historic District, Duanesburg, New York
- Woodlawn Quaker Meetinghouse, Fort Belvoir, Virginia
References
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- ↑ "More about Finchley Quaker Meeting". Quakers in North West London. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
- ↑ "Leek Quaker Meeting". Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Staffordshire. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
- ↑ "Stafford Quaker Meeting". Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Staffordshire. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
- ↑ "Uttoxeter & Burton Quaker Meeting". Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Staffordshire. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
- ↑ Historic England. "Quaker Meeting House (1035431)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
- ↑ Historic England. "Quaker Meeting House (1030599)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
- ↑ Historic England. "Brigstock House (1040197)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
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Sources
- Lippincott, Horace Mather. Abington Friends Meeting and School: 1682-1949. n.p.: n.p., 1949.
- Rose, Harold Wickliffe. The Colonial Houses of Worship in America. New York: Hastings House, Publishers, 1963.
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