Monument record 1083/24/0 - Friends Meeting House, Newton Bank

Site of a friends meeting house registered in 1692but of uncertain date was closed c.1790 and later used for a British school; it subsequently served (1863-83) as a Free Methodist Chapel but has long been demolished. In a 19th century brick boundary wall incorporating some earlier material is a reset sandstone lintel inscribed "SOCIETY OF FRIENDS 1690" (1).

<1> Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME), 1994, An Inventory of Non-Conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in the North of England, Cheshire Number 88 (Book). SCH4548.