Almeley Wootton Meeting is about nine miles from Hay-on -Wye and is one of the oldest, and most beautiful, Quaker Meetinghouses in Britain.
Richard Davies made the first reference to Almeley Meeting in their travels about 1669. Roger Pritchard gave the meeting house, an adaptation of earlier cottage buildings, to Friends in 1672. Since then it has been used almost continuously by Friends. Edward Pritchard, son of Roger, was one of the thirteen signatories of William Penn's 1682 Charter for Pennsylvania, and 'with his brother in law, William Eckley of Kimbolton, shared in Penn's Holy Experiment. Hanging inside the Meeting House is a record, presented by Governor Duff of Pennsylvania in 1948, of the link between Almeley and the founding of that state.
The Quaker Meeting House is a grade II listed 17th century building in the typical local black and white style. This traditional style has been retained externally and internally, again making it quite rare.
Almeley Wootton, HR3 6PX
Location:
5 miles south of Kington, half a mile north of Almeley on Lyonshall road
OS grid reference - SO 333 525 (click for map)
Meeting for worship on Sundays at 10.45 a.m. (facilities for children)
Tel: 01544 327581
Correspondence Clerk: Ann Bull - e-mail: correspondence clerk
Meetings Clerk: Ken Hutchinson - e-mail: co-clerk
Links
http://www.almeleyquakers.org.uk/
http://www.hmwquakers.org.uk/index.html
http://www.quaker.org.uk/almeley-wootton
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