Brigflatts Meeting House
| Brigflatts Meeting House | |
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Yorkshire | |
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 Brigflatts Meeting House | |
| Type: | Quaker meeting house |
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| Grid reference: | SD64099115 |
| Location: | 54°18’53"N, 2°33’13"W |
| Town: | Sedbergh |
| History | |
| Quaker meeting house | |
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Brigflatts Meeting House or Briggflatts Meeting House is a Friends Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends, the Quakers, near Sedbergh in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Built in 1675, it is the second oldest Friends Meeting House in Britain.
The building is a Grade I listed building.[1] It is the subject of a twelve-line poem titled "At Briggflatts meetinghouse" by British modernist poet Basil Bunting. Bunting's poem was written in 1975 for the 300th anniversary of the meeting house's construction.[2]
Throughout its history, the spelling has varied from Brigflatts, Brigflats, Briggflats, or Briggflatts, for both the village and the Quaker Meeting. Currently, the Quaker Meeting uses the spelling "Brigflatts".[3] The variant spelling with two g's and two t's was used by Bunting for his two poems, "At Briggflatts Meetinghouse" (1975) and the earlier autobiographical long poem Briggflatts (1965).
The Meeting House "Howgills" in Letchworth in Hertfordshire is based on Brigflatts.[4]
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References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1384080: The Friends' Meeting House and adjoining cottage to west
- ↑ Jacket Magazine (October 1999). "Basil Bunting - poem - At Briggflatts meetinghouse (1975)". Jacket Magazine. http://jacketmagazine.com/10/bunt-brig.html. Retrieved 1 December 2006.
- ↑ See: Brigflatts Quaker Meeting. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1347287: ’Howgills' (Society of Friends Meeting House) (Grade II listing)