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List of Friends Meeting Houses
The following list gives basic dates and locations for all the Meeting Houses known to have existed in Yorkshire from the mid 17th century onwards.
East Riding | North Riding | West Riding
The information is based (with permission) on the comprehensive survey by David M Butler, The Quaker Meeting Houses of Britain, published in two volumes by the Friends Historical Society in 1999. The Ridings of Yorkshire are covered in sections 38-40 in volume II. Copies of this publication are held by the Library of the Religious Society of Friends, Leeds University Library, the Brynmor Jones Library at the University of Hull and York University Library. Researchers are referred to this work for full historical details and sketches/plans of some of the buildings. For those interested in locating sites, grid references are given by Butler.
Other useful sources include: W Pearson Thistlethwaite, The Quaker Meeting Houses of Yorkshire 1647-1982: a gazetteer (1982); Christopher F Stell, Inventory of nonconformist chapels and meeting houses in the north of England (1994); and David & Susan Neave, East Riding chapels and meeting houses (1990).
Please note that this list does not outline the history of Quaker Meetings as such, but the buildings used for worship by those Meetings. Any queries, additions or alterations gratefully received.
