![]() Built for £30,000 on an unused part of the Clarendon Street burial ground. ![]() (Photo: courtesy of George L Roberts and 1961-present: Clarendon StreetĬlarendon Street Meeting House. The Adult School movement grew and spread nationwide. Caroline Howitt and Alice Scanlon started the Women’s Adult School, the first one in the country. Friends raised the money for these purpose-built premises. He was later assisted by a Quaker, Samuel Fox, who took it over and it became known as the Quaker School. In 1798, a literacy school for adults was started by William Singleton of the Methodist New Connection Church. (Photo: courtesy of George L Roberts and Friar Lane Meeting House with the Adult School Rooms on the right.Īdult School Rooms, Friar Lane on the right. Several original benches are in the present building. Interior showing ministers’ gallery and front bench where the Elders set. New entrance after widening of Friar Lane. This picture shows the original entrance, before the widening of Friar Lane in 1926. (Photo: 1951 during demolition) 1847-1961: Friar Laneįriar Lane Meeting House built at a cost of £1600, on the Friar Lane Burial Ground which had been in use since 1804. After the building was sold, a chapel-like frontage was added by the Catholic Apostolic Church. Interior with added ‘chapel’ entrance on left. North wall showing original pointed windows – an unusual design feature for a Meeting House. (Image © Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain)Ī 3D drawing of how the Spaniel Row Meeting House might have looked. During the building period, Friends met in a room on Wheeler Gate lent by David Reckless. Two houses adjacent to the existing one in Spaniel Row were bought for £36, and a new Meeting House built on the site at a cost of £337. (Photo: courtesy of Howitt Partnership and 1737-1847: Spaniel Row ![]() This photo shows the approximate location before demolition due to the building of Maid Marian Way. In 1675 this plot in Walnut Tree Lane was bought for £18. Indenture for the sale of a new house and garden in Spaniel Lane (now Spaniel Row) from John Reckless to Friends for £10.īeing denied the use of churchyards, early Friends were buried in their own gardens. Photo: courtesy of 1678-1737: Spaniel Lane Historical material by J Holland Walker, quoted from ). Both she and her husband soon afterwards became Quakers. Mary’s on the occasion of this interruption and was so influenced by Fox’s testimony that she arranged for him to be removed from the gaol to custody in the Sheriff’s house. Reckless, the wife of John Reckless who was Sheriff of Nottingham, was present at St. He was put in prison at Weekday Cross, which he described as ‘a nasty stinking place’. In 1649, George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends or Quakers, arrived in Nottingham, where he proceeded to interrupt the service in St. The ‘Seekers’ met here from 1649 to 1678. John Reckless’s house at the corner of White Friars Lane and Spaniel Lane (Row). Please inform us of any omissions so we can rectify them as soon as possible. The original, more detailed photo album was compiled by the late John Gray, and is available to view after Meeting for Worship.Įvery effort has been made to acknowledge copyright for the photos. You can also see a map of the Meeting House locations. Here is a pictorial history of the Meeting Houses that have been in existence since then. Quakers have been meeting in Nottingham since the 1600s.
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