Quaker Meeting House, Nailsworth
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Quaker Meeting House, Nailsworth
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 25 Sep 2020
The meeting house is set back from the road, Chestnut Hill, in a yard, now called Quakers' Close and laid out with a garden. The building dates from the early 1680s, when Friends, as Quakers call themselves, were emerging from the period of severe persecution by the state following the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, and were now able to build places of worship for themselves. These were called meeting houses, never 'churches' (which the founder of the Quakers, George Fox, dismissed as 'steeple houses'), as Quakers accepted no ordained ministry or priesthood and no programmed religious rites. The meeting house is built in Cotswold limestone in the local, vernacular style and has been in continuous use as a place of worship since 1689 at the latest. Early Quakers worshipped in homes and it is not clear whether this building was purpose-built or converted from an existing farm building. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1299075
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Image Location
Latitude
51.694131
Longitude
-2.221453