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Rawdon Quaker Meeting House

Sat 13 Sep 25
Sat 13 Sep:11.00 - 15.00; Free Entry. Friends Meeting House, Quakers Lane, Rawdon, Leeds LS19 6HU 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... READ MORE>

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