Entrance to Quaker burial ground, Gulliford
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Entrance to Quaker burial ground, Gulliford
Image: © Anthony Vosper Taken: 9 Mar 2014
Quakers do not believe that meeting for worship should occur in any special place but in 1689 the first Chapel was established at Gulliford This was later demolished and its successor was also later destroyed. Quakers have always reserved the word church to mean the body of people who make up the worshiping community: Quakers do not use the word church to refer to the bricks and mortar of a worshiping community. George Fox, an early Quaker, spoke of places of worship that have steeples as steeple houses, and those that do not as meeting houses. On this site was a meeting house: All that remains today is the walled cemetery with impressive gate piers. The Ground has been described as having an atmosphere of gentle melancholy and decay. The ground is open to the public. Today the Ground is managed by the Gulliford Joint Committee: - a committee made up of members from Lympstone and Woodbury Parish Councils.
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