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The West Nottingham Meetinghouse, or Little Brick Meetinghouse, is a historic Friends meeting house located at Rising Sun,
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. It is a brick one-story building built in 1811, rectangularly shaped, and measuring 45 feet, 4 inches by 30 feet. Also on the property is a graveyard. The structure features two entrances, one for women and one for men, and sliding panels to divide the interior space in half, as well as the raised "Elder's Benches." The West Nottingham Meetinghouse was listed on the
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in 1976.


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*, including undated photo, at Maryland Historical Trust Quaker meeting houses in Maryland Churches in Cecil County, Maryland Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Churches completed in 1811 19th-century Quaker meeting houses National Register of Historic Places in Cecil County, Maryland {{Quaker-stub