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meeting house, Scotby
Scotby Meeting House
Wetheral Meeting House
locality:-   Scotby
civil parish:-   Wetheral (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   meeting house
locality type:-   quaker meeting
coordinates:-   NY44175506
1Km square:-   NY4455
10Km square:-   NY45
references:-   Butler 1978


photograph
BQF38.jpg (taken 11.3.2009)  
photograph
BQF39.jpg (taken 11.3.2009)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 24 5) 
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"

evidence:-   text:- 
placename:-  Scotby Meeting House
placename:-  Wetheral Meeting House
source data:-   : : Quaker Administrative History "SCOTBY, Cumb, after 1974 Cumbr ... NY442550"
"1668-1740 ... Burgh (Moorhouse) MM"
"1740-1913 ... Carlisle MM"
"WETHERAL, Cumb, after 1974 Cumbr ... see SCOTBY"

evidence:-   old map:- Backhouse 1773
placename:-  Scotby meeting
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Map of the Meetings belonging to the Quarterly Meetings of Lancaster, Westmorland, Cumberland, Northumberland, Durham and York, scale about 9 miles to 1 inch, by James Backhouse, engraved by Thomas Kitchin, published by James Backhouse, Darlington, Durham, 1773.
image
BKH2Crls.jpg
labelled:-  "Scotby / 0.4"
meeting day Wednesday 
item:-  private collection : 224
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   drawing:- Butler 1978
placename:-  Scotby Meeting House
source data:-   Scotby 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
image  click to enlarge
PR1485.jpg
item:-  private collection : 377
Image © Friends Historical Society

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE / / / WETHERAL / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 77732 / NY4417355062"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Disused Quaker Meeting House. 1718, for the Borough, later Carlisle Monthly Meeting. Sandstone footings, brick walls, sandstone dressings and stone-slate roof. 1 storey and 3 bays: a typical simple meeting house of this period. Sandstone plinth course, with walls of English garden wall bond brickwork. Plain squared dressings to entrance and windows: sash windows with glazing bars. No internal fittings as building not used as a meeting house since 1913. Graveyard, to south, has unusual oval grave markers (about 19) dating between 1830 and 1896. Drawings and description in; David M Butler, Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties, 1978, p.7-9."


photograph
BQF40.jpg (taken 11.3.2009)  

hearsay:-  
The quaker meeting house was built on the Wetheral road corner, 1718. A burial ground adjoins. Early broken pillar gravestones have been moved to the side of the plot, around a new lawn.

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