Society of Friends Meeting House, Exeter
From Graces Guide
Situated in Friar's Walk, Exeter
1861 Listed in Friar's Walk. No persons resident.[1]
1873 Exeter Temperance Society have purchased the large building on the Friars once known as the Friend's Meeting House.[2]
New chapel at Pavilion Place, Exeter
1875 Francis Williams Dymond bought for £600 the original site, demolished the five houses which had been built in the meantime, and conveyed it to Friends for £300.
The current meeting house was built on the site for £1,626. The architect was Edward Appleton (1832-1916) who had also built a meeting house at Torquay in 1853.
1876 December 17th. The first Meeting for Worship was held.
1877 A small piece of additional land to the east was bought.
1942 The building sustained war damage.
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