Quaker Meeting House, Bainbridge

Description

Quaker Meeting House, Bainbridge MYD34349 (c) YDNPA, 2023

An early 19th century Friend’s Meeting House built from stone rubble and with a stone slate roof. It is single storey with a gallery at the left end. Inside there is original wooden panelling to the meeting room and elders’ gallery. The chapel was built in 1836 replacing an earlier meeting house converted from a cottage in 1668. The latter stood where the Temperance Hall now is. The new meeting house was sited next to a burial ground that had been bought by the Quakers in 1672. This was extended when the new meeting house was built. It contains the graves of several important Quakers from the area including Richard Robinson (died 1692) who was the first Quaker in Wensleydale and Alexander Fothergill (died 1788) who surveyed the Richmond to Lancaster turnpike road.

Source:

Hall, June (2001) Step by Step round Bainbridge… a village walk in Wensleydale. Bainbridge: Unicorn Projects