Description

MALTON

SE780715 GREENGATE
801-1/8/40 (North side)
29/09/51 Malton Meeting House and attached
walls bounding Quaker Burial Ground
(Formerly Listed as:
GREENGATE
(North side)
Friends' Meeting House. Cemetery &
Cemetery Perimeter Walls to the S)

GV II*

Quaker meeting house, and attached walls bounding burial
ground on north, south, east and west sides. Meeting House
dated 1823. Wall to south of burial ground dated 1823; C18
walls surviving from earlier Meeting House garden to east and
west; walls to north C20.
Meeting House of pink and cream mottled brick in Flemish bond,
on sandstone plinth; sandstone dressings, and timber cornice
to hipped slate roof. South wall to burial ground of pink and
cream mottled brick in English bond; walls to east and west of
orange-red brick in Engish garden-wall bond; stone copings and
dressings.
Meeting House: one tall storey of 6 bays. Right of centre
double doors with 2 grooved panels, 2 raised panels and 2
glazed panels; blocked square opening with stone sill above
doors. Remaining windows are 24-pane sashes, 2 to right of
doors, 3 to left, over continuous sillband. All openings have
flat arches of gauged brick. Scrolled, wrought-iron gas
bracket over door. Moulded eaves cornice encircles building.
Rear: four 12-pane fixed light windows with flat arches, over
sillband. Left and right returns: single, external,
square-section chimney stack in centre of each wall.
INTERIOR: 2 rooms separated by a passage with panelled
shutters on each side, designed to be opened up to form one
single large meeting room. Fielded panel doors with original
fittings. Overhead gallery with turned column balusters. Room
to left: raised and fielded dado panelling. Fitted benches to
3 sides: fourth side has dais behind panelled partition
carrying balustrade of short turned column balusters and
moulded rail. Passage and both meeting rooms have cast-iron
ceiling vents in moulded circular surrounds. Datestone over
lintel of main door inscribed: ANNO DOMINI 1823.
The plain design of the meeting house, incorporating the
acoustic shuttering in the entrance passage, is influenced by
William Alexander's Observations on ... Meeting Houses (York,
1820), and represents a notable advance in the design of such
buildings.
Walls to burial ground: wall to south approx 30m long and 6m
high has square-arched gateway with monolithic lintel
containing cast-iron double gates with spearhead finials.
Inner face of lintel inscribed: ANNO DOMINI, 1823. Towards
right end is a board door beneath monolithic lintel, giving
access to No.21, former caretaker's house (qv). West wall
approx 30m long, east wall approx 23m long; both walls varying
in height from approx 5m and stepped up in places. Flat coping
to all walls. Attached to west wall are 2 slate slabs
recording cremations between 1948-1972 & 1968-1990
respectively. Part of west wall collapsed.

Listing NGR: SE7872971890

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17540373

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey