Historic houses · North West England
Briggflatts Meeting House
Briggflatts Meeting House — a Grade I-listed historic house in england-north-west, United Kingdom.
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- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Briggflatts Meeting House is a Grade I-listed building in england-north-west, United Kingdom. Grade I status is conferred by Historic England (or Cadw, Historic Environment Scotland or NIEA equivalents) on buildings of exceptional national interest. See the linked Wikipedia article for full historical and architectural details.
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From the Wikipedia article
Brigflatts Meeting House or Briggflatts Meeting House is a Friends Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), near Sedbergh, Cumbria, in north-western England. Built in 1675, it is the second oldest Friends Meeting House in England. It has been listed Grade I on the National Heritage List for England since March 1954. It is the subject of a twelve-line poem titled "At Briggflatts meetinghouse" by British modernist poet Basil Bunting. Bunting's poem was written in 1975 for the 300th anniversary of the meeting house's construction. 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". 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 (1965). The Meeting House "Howgills" in Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire is based on Brigflatts.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
- Coordinates
- 54.3147, -2.5535
Sources
- wikidata: Q4967239 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Brigflatts Meeting House (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Briggflatts Meeting House?
- Briggflatts Meeting House is in North West England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.3147°, -2.5535°.
- Is Briggflatts Meeting House a listed building?
- Briggflatts Meeting House carries the heritage designation "Grade I" — a protective status under UK heritage law.