Friends Meeting House, Airton
Friends Meeting House, Airton
The Grade II* Friends Meeting House stands at the east end of Airton green in Malhamdale, North Yorkshire. Historic England upgraded the listing in 2020 to include the attached archway and a long stone bench.
- Location
- Airton, Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Yorkshire
- City / town
- Airton
- Address
- Airton, Yorkshire, BD23 4AE
- Postcode
- BD23 4AE
- Built
- Late C17 or early C18; door lintel dated 1700
- Denomination
- Quaker (Religious Society of Friends)
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Vernacular
- Materials
- Limestone and sandstone rubble with stone dressings and stone slate roofs
- Grid reference
- SD 903 592
- Opening hours
- The building is usually unlocked all the time and open to visitors and worshippers.
- Access
- Accessible toilets nearby. Level access to the main areas
- Website
- https://airtonbarn.org.uk/
Overview
The list description records a late seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century meeting house funded by William and Alice Ellis, possibly adapting an earlier cruck barn. The rectangular building is of limestone and sandstone rubble on a boulder plinth, with a stone slate roof. The southeast doorway has chamfered jambs and a basket-arched lintel carved W E A 1700, under a flat stone canopy on shaped brackets. Mullioned windows light a lofty main meeting room, a smaller room beyond an oak shuttered partition, and a gallery.
Historic England notes an oak-panelled elders' bench, chamfered gallery beams, and early-eighteenth-century fireplaces. The Ellises bought the building from John Lambert in 1700. Regular worship continued until the Second World War; after later disrepair, meetings were reinstated in 2004 and the stone roof reset in 2005. The adjoining Nook, barn and burial-ground walls are listed separately at Grade II (1469994).