Site Event/Activity record ECH6158 - The Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project

Quaker meeting houses are distinctive and often attractive historic buildings, reflecting part of the history of English nonconformist religious belief since the late seventeenth century. In the summer of 2014 Architecture History Practice completed a pilot survey of Quaker meeting houses in East Anglia for the Religious Society of Friends, part-funded by Historic England under the Taking Stock programme. The pilot survey developed a new methodology in which local Quaker volunteers recorded the current condition, use, management and vulnerability of meeting houses and burial grounds. AHP’s role is to assess the significance of the meeting houses and produce individual and regional reports that will inform the Quakers’ management of their buildings. This collaborative approach is now being extended to cover the whole of England and Wales, over the next two years