Historic Quaker Meeting House

Quaker meeting houses are intentionally simply decorated and furnished. Originally the meeting house had a plain wooden floor and benches. This has been updated but has kept to the style, which supports our quiet form of worship.
The building has been used as an adult education venue, a night shelter, a counselling centre (current), a Polling Station and a place of hospitality for refugees and asylum seekers. Memories are around the terrible condition of the building prior to its renovation in the 1970s, and of individual Quakers and their lives in Swindon.
It has also been a witness through two wars to the choices made by Conscientious Objectors, Quakers who served for example in the Friends Ambulance Units, and yet others who decided to fight. Quaker concerns today include Climate Change, Gender Diversity, Refugees and Anti-Racism.
We will display documents and photographs.
Members of the Swindon Meeting will be on hand to answer questions about our history and about Quakers today.

Timings & Tours

Saturday 14 September:

10-4

Location & directions

Friends Meeting House, 79 Eastcott Hill, Friends Meeting House, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN1 3JF

Directions:

Large blue sign visible from the road. There is some parking, but plenty of public car parks nearby.

Contact on day:

Steve Russell

Telephone number:

+447548394580

Booking information

Pre-booking requirement:

Pre-booking not required

Accessibility details

Limited parking

Additional information

We would like Quakers to be better known in Swindon, and hope that visitors will take away a sense of the history of both the building and the people who have been part our community.

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