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Winnowshill Friends' Meeting House (Healey)

Former Friends' Meeting House at Winnowshill. Photo by Peter Ryder.
Former Friends' Meeting House at Winnowshill. Photo by Peter Ryder.

Part of the burial ground near Winnowshill Friends' Meeting House showing an inscribed tablet. Photo by Peter Ryder.
Part of the burial ground near Winnowshill Friends' Meeting House showing an inscribed tablet. Photo by Peter Ryder.
The Meeting House was built in 1766 for the Society of Friends or Quakers as they are also known. It now stands in ruins, one wall has completely collapsed and the others stand about two metres tall. The chapel now stands close to the edge of Derwent Reservoir. (1-2)
N8492
Post Medieval (1540 to 1901)
FIELD OBSERVATION, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses within the Northumberland Section of the Northern Pennine A.O.N.B. 1998


Source of Reference
Local History of Healey

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