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Rawdon Quaker Meeting House
Heritage Open Day: Saturday 13th September : 11.00 -15.00 :Visit Rawdon Quaker Meeting House , built in 1697 , it is a grade 2 listed building in continuous use as a place of worship. Look around, talk to members. Refreshments available. The Meeting House is a simple building built at a time when nonconformity of belief and religious practice was emerging from a time of persecution. The Act of Toleration in 1689 granted freedom of worship to Protestant Dissenters. The Meeting House was built by a group of small business men involved in the textile trade in the Rawdon area.
The site has two buildings and a graveyard . Some of the graveyard stones were moved to Rawdon from the first Quaker burial ground in the area when it was closed.
The site has two buildings and a graveyard . Some of the graveyard stones were moved to Rawdon from the first Quaker burial ground in the area when it was closed.
Saturday 13 September
Friends Meeting House, Quakers Lane, Rawdon, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS19 6HU
Sat 13 Sep:11.00 - 15.00; Free Entry.
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