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| meeting house, Wigton | ||
| Wigton Meeting House | ||
| Street:- | West Street | |
| locality:- | Wigton | |
| civil parish:- | Wigton (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | meeting house | |
| locality type:- | quaker meeting | |
| locality type:- | quaker burial ground | |
| coordinates:- | NY25364832 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2548 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY24 | |
| references:- | Butler 1978 |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 29 5) |
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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 / Friends Burial Ground" |
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| evidence:- | text:- placename:- Wigton Meeting House |
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| source data:- | : : Quaker Administrative History "WIGTON, Cumb, after 1974 Cumbr ... NY254484" "1668-1964 ... Holm MM" "1965- ... Carlisle &Holm MM" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Backhouse 1773 placename:- Wigton meeting |
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| 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. BKH2Wgtn.jpg labelled:- "Wigton / 3.4" meeting day Wednesday nearby market day Tuesday item:- private collection : 224 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | drawing:- Butler 1978 placename:- Wigton Meeting House |
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| source data:- | Wigton 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 enlargePR1492.jpg  click to enlargePR1493.jpg item:- private collection : 377 Images © Friends Historical Society |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 item:- date stone (1830) |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE / / WEST ROAD / WIGTON / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72059 / NY2535648322" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Friends Meeting House. Dated 1830 over side entrance, probably by William Alderson. Snecked red sandstone ashlar with heavy cornice and broad angle pilasters on chamfered plinth. Hipped slate roof. Single-storey, 3-bay facade. Large sash windows with glazing bars in eared pilastered surrounds. Flanking incised rendered screen walls have panelled doors in pilastered surrounds, that to left giving access to graveyard and that to right giving access to 2 side entrances under a colonnade on slender cast-iron columns. 2-storey, single-bay extension to right has external stone steps to former upper-floor schoolroom. See David M. Butler, Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties, 1978, pp23-28." |
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