---
title: "Friends Meeting House, Airton"
description: "Located in Airton, Yorkshire. Built Late C17 or early C18; door lintel dated 1700. Grade II*. Vernacular style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Quaker (Religious Society of Friends)","Yorkshire","Airton","Grade II*","Vernacular","Friends Meeting House"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/airton-friends-meeting-house"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T01:10:38.315Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-08T00:33:28.566Z"
location: "Airton, Yorkshire"
country: "England"
county: "Yorkshire"
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"
website: "https://airtonbarn.org.uk/"
openingHours: "The building is usually unlocked all the time and open to visitors and worshippers."
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1132105"
gridReference: "SD 903 592"
accessNotes: "Accessible toilets nearby. Level access to the main areas"
---

# 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.

## 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).

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1132105](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1132105)
- [Airton Friends Meeting House and Barn](https://airtonbarn.org.uk/)