York Street Meeting House
Introduction
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York Street Meeting House
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 28 Dec 2021
Bath's Quaker community used this neoclassical building in the nineteenth century. Originally a Freemasons' Hall designed by William Wilkins (1778-1839), in a Greek Revival style, it was built in 1817-19. However, the masons found it unaffordable and moved out after a few years; it then was used as an Assembly Room, exhibition site, a Non-conformist chapel in the 1830s and then as the Bethesda Chapel in 1842. The church then changed again and was property of the Religious Society of Friends from 1866. But the Quakers had found it necessary to downsize in the twenty-first century and sold the building in 2020; it is now a bookseller's.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.38089
Longitude
-2.358451