The Amersham Meeting house is a Friends meeting house (a Quaker place of worship) on Whielden Street in Amersham, a market town in the Chiltern Hills of Buckinghamshire, England. It is listed at Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England. Meeting for worship is held on Sundays at 11 am.
The meeting house forms part of an extension to the adjoining Whielden Cottage, which was built around 1600. The cottage was enlarged in 1689 to serve as a meeting house for the Quakers, who had begun to meet in Amersham from the 1660s. The Amersham Quakers received a letter from the early Quaker Isaac Penington in 1667.Isaac Penington to Friends in Amersham (1667): Isaac Penington to Friends in Amersham (1667), accessdate: March 7, 2017
The building was further extended and refronted in red brick in the late 18th century. The meeting room is divided into two by a wooden screen with shutters. A large burial ground lies to the north and west of the house.
The library of the Amersham Quakers is registered on LibraryThing.LibraryThing: AmershamQsLib | LibraryThing, accessdate: March 7, 2017
See also Grade II* listed buildings in Chiltern
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History of the Amersham Meeting House