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The Great Britain Guide

Chapels · North West England

Britain's historic Quaker meeting houses

Plain stone, white interiors, four centuries old.

The Religious Society of Friends has built unadorned meeting houses in Britain since the 1650s. Many of the earliest survive in active use: Brigflatts (Cumbria, 1675), Jordans (Buckinghamshire, where William Penn is buried), Hertford (built 1670), and Almeley Wootton (Herefordshire). They are open during meetings and often by appointment otherwise.

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