Building record 4489/0/0 - Friends Meeting House, Altrincham Road

<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 No. 149 (Book). SCH4548.

A Friends Meeting House built in 1830 to replace the meeting house in Morley [CHER 4488/0/0]. Built of brick with sandstone dressings and a hipped slate roof. It has a broad North front of five bays with round-arched windows and central entrance. The interior is divided by a central passage with the main meeting-room of two bays to the East, a smaller room to the West and a separate room at the West end added in 1881 with a lower annexe beyond.

<2> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 414109 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Quaker Meeting House, 1830. Flemish bond orange brick on sandstone plinth. Hipped Welsh slate roof and 1 brick chimney. Rectangular plan. 1-storey symmetrical 5-bay front. Stone band at impost level of tall semi-circular gauged and rubbed brick headed recesses. These contain semi-circular headed sashes and in the central bay a reeded doorcase with roundels at the corners and a less deep sash above. To right is a lower l-bay addition. Interior: Very plain and no features of interest.

<3> Architectural History Practice, 2015, Quaker Meeting House, Wilmslow (Client Report). SCH7963.

Architectural survey undertaken of the meeting house in 2015. In 1831 the Friends of Morley purchased a large plot of land which was part of the Lindow Common. A meeting house, stable, carriage shed and burial ground were all established that year. By 1881, the meeting house was unable to accommodate children at Sunday school or meet the demand for adult education so the single storey stable and carriage shed were altered to provide two storey accommodation. In the 1960s the Meeting change its name from Morley to Wilmslow Meeting. By 1986, the meeting house required substantial repairs and, by 1993, a decision was made to sell it with part of the land, but to retain the stable and school house building as the new meeting house. The building is built in red brick laid in Flemish bond with a hipped roof covered in Welsh slates.

The current meeting house is not listed in its own right, but the original meeting house is Grade II* listed but the entire complex falls within the listed curtilage.