Description

SP4635 ADDERBURY HORN HILL ROAD
(West side)
Adderbury West
6/75 Friends Meeting House
08/12/55 (Formerly listed as Friends
Meeting House, Bloxham Road)

GV II*
Quaker meeting house. 1675 for Bray Doyley. Coursed squared marlstone with some
ashlar dressings and wooden lintels; concrete plain-tile roof with rebuilt
ashlar gable stack. Single range. One storey plus loft galleries. Symmetrical
front has a central doorway with double doors flanked by large 3-light leaded
casements, all with stop-chamfered lintels; right end and both gables have
similar casements. Steep-pitched roof has stone gable parapets with moulded
projecting kneelers, and has the stack to left with a renewed datestone
inscribed "1675"; central gabled dormer has a moulded cornice above a 2-light
leaded casement. Interior: stone-paved floor with a dais along the rear wall;
C18 matchboard dado with fixed perimeter benches; winder stair leading to a
3-sided gallery carried on chamfered beams with a simple slat balustrade. The
interior is complete with late C17/early C18 pine benches and represents an
unusual survival.
(VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol IX, p12; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p415)

Listing NGR: SP4651835302

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17547962

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)