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| Eaglesfield Meeting House | ||
| locality:- | Eaglesfield | |
| civil parish:- | Dean (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | meeting house | |
| locality type:- | quaker meeting | |
| coordinates:- | NY09322804 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY0928 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY02 | |
| references:- | Butler 1978 |
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 BWA60.jpg (taken 9.3.2012) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 54 11) |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. "Friends' Meeting House / Grave Yard" "" |
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| evidence:- | text:- placename:- Eaglesfield Meeting House |
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| source data:- | : : Quaker Administrative History "EAGLESFIELD, Cumb, after 1974 Cumbr ... NY093280" "Meeting house built 1711 within the compass of Pardshaw MM for use for funerals only" |
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| evidence:- | drawing:- Butler 1978 placename:- Eaglesfield Meeting House |
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| source data:- | Eaglesfield Meeting House drawn by David Butler and published in Quaker Meeting Houses
of the Lake Counties by David M Butler, by the Friends Historical Society, 1978 courtesy of David Butler  click to enlargePR1509.jpg item:- private collection : 377 Image © Friends Historical Society |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE / / / DEAN / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72635 / NY0932528034" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Friends' Meeting House now private house. Inscribed over entrance JOHN BARN GAVE 40L TO BUILD THIS HOUSE 1711; WITH C20 restoration. Painted roughcast walls, under rebuilt graduated greenslate roof with C20 roof lights; brick chimney stack. Single storey, 3 bays with integral former stable. C20 door in original stone surround and C20 casement windows in 2-light stone-mullioned frames. Further left C20 door. Rear has slated C20 porch and similar 2-light windows. Former stable now with garage doors. See D.M. Butler, Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties, 1978, pp57-60." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 item:- date stone (1693) |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "WALL AROUND BURIAL GROUND OF FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE / / / DEAN / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72636 / NY0934928006" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Friends' burial ground wall now garden wall. Dated 1693 over entrance. Limestone rubble. Low wall with irregular rubble coping and side plank door, enclosing garden on 3 sides and joining with Meeting House on 4th side. Walls other than roadside wall are in poor state of repair. Listed for group value with Friends' Meeting House." |
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 BWA61.jpg Gate to burial ground, (taken 9.3.2012)  BWA62.jpg Date stone on gate:- "1693" (taken 9.3.2012) |
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