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Latitude: 52.195 / 52°11'41"N
Longitude: -2.2207 / 2°13'14"W
OS Eastings: 385009
OS Northings: 255218
OS Grid: SO850552
Mapcode National: GBR 1G4.9CW
Mapcode Global: VH92T.G3C4
Plus Code: 9C4V5QVH+XP
Entry Name: Friends' Meeting House
Listing Date: 22 May 1954
Last Amended: 12 June 2001
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1390135
English Heritage Legacy ID: 489105
ID on this website: 101390135
Location: Worcester, Worcestershire, WR1
County: Worcestershire
District: Worcester
Electoral Ward/Division: Cathedral
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Worcester
Traditional County: Worcestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Worcestershire
Church of England Parish: Worcester St Nicholas and All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Worcester
Tagged with: Quaker meeting house
WORCESTER
SO8555SW SANSOME PLACE
620-1/13/497 (West side)
22/05/54 Friends' Meeting House
(Formerly Listed as:
SANSOME PLACE
(West side)
Former Friends Meeting
House)
GV II
Meeting house for the Society of Friends. 1701 with later
additions and alterations including interior re-ordering in 1980.
Pinkish-orange brick in Flemish bond with stuccoed plinth and
hipped plain tile roof.
EXTERIOR: single tall storey, 4 windows. Plinth. Tall wide 12/8
sashes in near-flush frames and cambered-arched surrounds with
cambered arches and sills. 3-course band over windows. Modillion
eaves band. Central entrance in projecting pedimented porch,
double 12-panel doors in plain architrave with flat arch of
gauged brick; frieze and moulded cornice. Further entrance in
right return under cambered arch, renewed 6-panel door. Rear has
tall 8/8 sashes.
INTERIOR: gallery to left part re-uses original panelling and
original oric columns, some re-used panelled dado.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Society of Friends began meeting in
Worcester in 1655 and land for this building was purchased in
1700, meetings were then transferred from Friar Street. In its
form and side wall entry plan, a characteristic example of Old
Dissent architecture.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 322; RCHME: Non-Conformist Chapels and
Meeting Houses in Central England: London: 1986-: 259; County
Record Office: Book of Abstracts; Folio 31, BA8769/1 (i)).
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