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Brigflatts Meeting House or Briggflatts Meeting House is a
Brigflatts Quaker Meeting
Retrieved 13 May 2015. The variant spelling with two g's and two t's was used by Bunting for his two poems, "At Briggflatts Meetinghouse" (1975) and the earlier autobiographical long poem ''
VisitCumbria.com "Brigflatts Meeting House" page
with several good photos. Quaker meeting houses in England Buildings and structures in Cumbria Churches completed in 1675 17th-century Quaker meeting houses Sedbergh 1675 establishments in England Grade I listed buildings in Cumbria Grade I listed religious buildings and structures {{Quaker-stub
Brigflatts Meeting House or Briggflatts 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 ...
of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belief in each human's abili ...
, near Sedbergh
Sedbergh ( or ) is a town and civil parish in Cumbria, England. The 2001 census gave the parish a population of 2,705, increasing at the 2011 census to 2,765. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, it lies about east of Kendal, nor ...
, Cumbria
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, in north-western England
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. Built in 1675, it is the second oldest Friends Meeting House in England. It has been listed Grade I
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on the National Heritage List for England
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since March 1954.
It is the subject of a twelve-line poem titled "At Briggflatts meetinghouse" by British modernist poet Basil Bunting
Basil Cheesman Bunting (1 March 1900 – 17 April 1985) was a British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of '' Briggflatts'' in 1966, generally regarded as one of the major achievements of the modernist traditio ...
. Bunting's poem was written in 1975 for the 300th anniversary of the meeting house's construction. Cites the poem as ''Odes II:11, 1975''.
Throughout its history, the spelling has varied from ''Brigflatts'', ''Brigflats'', ''Briggflats'', or ''Briggflatts'', for both the village and the Quaker Meeting. Currently, the Quaker Meeting uses the spelling "Brigflatts".SeeBrigflatts Quaker Meeting
Retrieved 13 May 2015. The variant spelling with two g's and two t's was used by Bunting for his two poems, "At Briggflatts Meetinghouse" (1975) and the earlier autobiographical long poem ''
Briggflatts
''Briggflatts'' is a long poem by Basil Bunting published in 1966. The work is subtitled "An Autobiography." The title "Briggflatts" comes from the name of Brigflatts Meeting House (spelled with one "g" in Quaker circles), a Quaker Friends meet ...
'' (1965).
The Meeting House 'Howgills' in Letchworth Garden City
Letchworth Garden City, commonly known as Letchworth, is a town in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It is noted for being the first garden city. The population at the time of the 2011 census was 33,249.
Letchworth ...
in Hertfordshire
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is based on Brigflatts.
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External links
VisitCumbria.com "Brigflatts Meeting House" page
with several good photos. Quaker meeting houses in England Buildings and structures in Cumbria Churches completed in 1675 17th-century Quaker meeting houses Sedbergh 1675 establishments in England Grade I listed buildings in Cumbria Grade I listed religious buildings and structures {{Quaker-stub