NHER 13260 (Monument record) - Site of Quaker Meeting House

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Summary

This is the site of the old Quaker Meeting House. It was erected in 1696 and demolished in 1904.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL88SE
Civil Parish THETFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

Old Quaker Meeting House.
Erected 1696. Demolished 1904.
Information from (S1).

The gable end of the meeting house is visible in a photograph of unknown date (S2) which features the adjacent post medieval lock-up (NHER 13261). Another photograph taken about 1905 depicts the ruins of the Meeting House (S3), and a single gable wall is also visible in an aerial photograph of the town taken about 1925 (S4). The site is now covered by the forecourt of the Carnegie Room, which opened in 1968. A small number of inhumations were moved from the Quakers' burial ground to the London Road cemetery prior to the construction of the Carnegie Room (S3).
See (S2-4) for further details.
H. Hamilton (NLA), 24 June 2008.

  • <S1> Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S2> Photograph: Cage Lane: Old Lock-up and Stocks and gable of Friends Meeting House. Print, b&w.
  • <S3> Monograph: Osborne, D.. 1996. Thetford: A Century Remembered. From 1900 to the present day.. p 120.
  • <S4> Photograph: Osborne, D.. 2000. Thetford, A Century Remembered. From 1900 to the Present Day.. Part two. p 112.

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Record last edited

Dec 6 2010 11:07AM

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