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The Amersham Meeting house is a
Isaac Penington to Friends in Amersham (1667)
accessdate: March 7, 2017 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
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History of the Amersham Meeting House
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The Amersham Meeting house is a Friends meeting house
A Friends meeting house is a meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), where meeting for worship is usually held.
Typically, Friends meeting houses are simple and resemble local residential buildings. Steeples, spires, and ...
(a Quaker
Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of Christian denomination, denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belie ...
place of worship) on Whielden Road in Amersham
Amersham ( ) is a market town and civil parish within the unitary authority of Buckinghamshire, England, in the Chiltern Hills, northwest of central London, from Aylesbury and from High Wycombe. Amersham is part of the London commuter belt.
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, Buckinghamshire. It is listed Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England
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. The meeting for worship is held on Sundays at 11 am.
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.Isaac Penington to Friends in Amersham (1667)Isaac Penington to Friends in Amersham (1667)
accessdate: March 7, 2017 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
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*History of the Amersham Meeting House
{{coord, 51.66403, -0.61904, format=dms, type:landmark_region:GB, display=title Amersham 1689 establishments in England 17th-century Quaker meeting houses Grade II* listed buildings in Buckinghamshire Grade II* listed houses Grade II* listed religious buildings and structures Quaker meeting houses in England