Whitehaven & Egremont Quakers History
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Description
"....Thomas Story encouraged Friends to build a meeting house and a plot of ground was purchased for 5 shillings. Friends subscribed towards the cost of a meeting house and early in 1724 the Friends of Pardshaw monthly meeting reported that a contract had been drawn up for the building work. When John Fothergill visited the town in July 1724 to take ship for Ireland he attended a meeting held inside the partially built walls. He returned nearly a year later at Easter and attended a large meeting, the first to be held in the meeting house. The regular and simple elevations of the building concealed a complex interior; great stone pillars supported the central valley of the double roof...." -
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Further information
Link: https://www.cumberlandquakers.org.uk/local-meetings/whitehaven/history/
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