Amersham Meeting House Explained

The Amersham Meeting house is a Friends meeting house (a Quaker place of worship) on Whielden Road in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. It is listed Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England. The meeting for worship is held on Sundays at 11 am.[1]

The meeting house forms part of an extension to the adjoining cottage, Whielden Cottage, which was built c. 1600. The cottage was extended in 1689 to serve as a Quaker meeting house for the Quakers who had begun to meet in Amersham from the 1660s. The Amersham Quakers received a letter from the noted early Quaker Isaac Penington in 1667.[2]

It was extended and refronted in red brick in the late 18th century. The meeting room is divided into two by a wooden screen with shutters. A large burial ground is situated to the north and west of the house.

The library of the Amersham Quakers is registered on LibraryThing.[3]

External links

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Amersham Quakers. Chiltern Quakers. 4 March 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20151121223044/http://www.quakers-chilterns-area.org.uk/amersham_main.htm. 21 November 2015. dead.
  2. Isaac Penington to Friends in Amersham (1667): Isaac Penington to Friends in Amersham (1667), accessdate: March 7, 2017
  3. LibraryThing: AmershamQsLib | LibraryThing, accessdate: March 7, 2017