Friends Meeting House, Come to Good
Friends Meeting House, Come-to-Good
The Friends Meeting House at Come-to-Good, in the parish of Kea near Truro, Cornwall, is a Grade I thatched Quaker meeting house of 1710, still in use for worship.
- Location
- Come to Good, Cornwall
- Country
- England
- County
- Cornwall
- City / town
- Come to Good
- Address
- Come to Good, Cornwall, TR3 6QS
- Postcode
- TR3 6QS
- Built
- 1710; gallery 1717; linhay mid C19; west porch replaced 1967
- Denomination
- Quaker (Religious Society of Friends)
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Early Georgian Quaker meeting house
- Materials
- Painted cob on stone-rubble footings; wheat-reed thatched roof
- Grid reference
- SW 812 403
- Opening hours
- The historic part of the building is open 24/7 for visitors, apart from 10.30am to 11.30am on Sundays which is our worship time. All are also welcome to join this if they wish.
- Access
- Non-accessible toilets in church. Ramp or level access available on request
Overview
Historic England lists The Friends Meeting House (NHLE 1140860, listed 30 May 1967, amended 12 March 1986). The list records a meeting house of about 1710 in painted cob on stone-rubble footings under a steep wheat-reed thatch, originally a single room open to the roof, with a galleried loft of 1717. A linhay was added in the mid nineteenth century; a thatch-roofed concrete west porch of 1967 replaced an earlier lean-to. Original leaded lattice windows survive in oak frames, with crown glass and pin-tail hinges. The interior keeps unpainted pine roof, gallery, ministers’ stand and wall settles. Funds were raised from Quaker subscribers in 1707 and 1710; the land belonged to James Mayo, a Quaker, of Penelewey Barton. A mounting block survives to the south-east. The listing stresses how little the building has changed since the nineteenth century.