Friends Meeting House
The Friends Meeting House in Lancaster, Lancashire, England is a Quaker meeting house built in 1708. It is an active Friends meeting house, and a Grade II* listed building.Photo: The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Quaker
- Description: Quaker meeting house in Lancaster, Lancashire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Friends Meeting House, Lancaster” and “Lancaster Quaker Meeting House”
- Address: Meeting House Lane, Lancaster, LA1 1TX
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Lancaster Railway Station and Lancaster Castle.
Lancaster Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lancaster railway station serves the city of Lancaster, in Lancashire, England. It is one of the principal stations on the West Coast Main Line, located 20 miles 78 chains north of Preston.
Lancaster Castle
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Lancaster Castle is a medieval castle and former prison in Lancaster in the English county of Lancashire. Its early history is unclear, but it may have been founded in the 11th century on the site of a Roman fort overlooking a crossing of the River Lune. Lancaster Castle is situated 590 feet northeast of Friends Meeting House.
Judges’ Lodgings, Lancaster
Museum
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The Judges' Lodgings, formerly a town house and now a museum, is located between Church Street and Castle Hill, Lancaster, Lancashire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. Judges’ Lodgings, Lancaster is situated 830 feet northeast of Friends Meeting House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Skerton and Aldcliffe.
Skerton
Suburb
Skerton is an area in the north of Lancaster, Lancashire, England, on the other side of the River Lune to the castle. It was formerly a township, but in the late 1800s it was incorporated into Lancaster and the neighbouring townships. Skerton Bridge takes the A6 southwards towards the city centre.
Aldcliffe
Village
Photo: Ian Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Aldcliffe is a hamlet, and former township and civil parish, now in the parish of Aldcliffe-with-Stodday, south-west of Lancaster, in the Lancaster district, in the county of Lancashire, England.
Torrisholme
Suburb
Photo: Ian Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Torrisholme is a suburb of Morecambe, Lancashire, on the North West coast of England. In the 2001 census, the Torrisholme Ward had a population of 6,758 living in 3,118 households, decreasing marginally to 6,755 at the 2011 Census. Torrisholme is situated 1½ miles northwest of Friends Meeting House.
Friends Meeting House
- Categories: Quaker meeting house, building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Lancaster, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.04844° or 54° 2′ 54″ northLongitude
-2.80649° or 2° 48′ 23″ westOpen location code
9C6V25XV+9COpenStreetMap ID
way 48832451OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=quakerOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q17531610
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