NHER 63553 (Monument record) - Site of Quaker Meeting House, New Conduit Street

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Summary

This is the site of a Quaker Meeting House. The Society of Friends existed in Lynn from at least 1655, and had a meeting house on New Conduit Street as early as 1741. This appears to have been rebuilt in 1774, with a Sunday School added to the north in 1883. The meeting house was sold in 1949 and has since been demolished. The burial ground associated with this meeting house was excavated in 2005 (NHER 37719 and NHER 37722).

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF62SW
Civil Parish KING’S LYNN, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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The Society of Friends has existed in King's Lynn since at least 1655. Their earliest meeting places are not known, but (S1) dating from 1741 marks a 'meeting house' which seems to denote the original Quaker meeting house in New Conduit Street. This was rebuilt some years later and (S2) noted a stone in the boundary wall inscribed 'Q'S M. 1774', perhaps indicating the date of this rebuilding. Associated with the meeting house was a Sunday School which opened in 1883. The meeting house proved costly to maintain, and in 1949 it was sold.
The Quaker burial ground was located during excavations in 2005 (NHER 37719).
Information from (S1).
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 4 February 2020.

  • <S1> Publication: Buck. 1741. Eastern Prospect of Lynn-Regis.
  • <S2> Monograph: Hillen, H. J. 1907. History of the Borough of King's Lynn. pp 419,.

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Record last edited

Feb 5 2020 8:41PM

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