The Brentford & Isleworth Meeting House is a Friends meeting house (a Quaker place of worship) on Quakers Lane in Isleworth, a suburban town in the London Borough of Hounslow, west London, England. Built in the 18th century, it is listed at Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England and is one of the oldest purpose-built meeting houses in London. Meeting for worship is held on Sundays at 10:30 am.
The building was constructed for the Quakers in 1785 and has been extended on several occasions, including the addition of a library in 1829 and a classroom in 1958. The land was purchased for £35 from Benjamin Angell, a retired printer and dyer and local Quaker. The West London Quaker burial ground and a garden surround the meeting house. The front wall was badly damaged during the London Blitz on 13 October 1940, and the building did not fully re-open until 1950; in the interim, meetings were held in a temporary space nearby. Local Quakers and conscientious objectors also used the site to operate an organisation providing relief to those affected by the bombing, known as the Relief Service Unit.
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Historic England list entry