Eye - 09 September 2016

From seating to titles

by Eye 9th September 2016

New seat for historic seating

A beautifully-carved chair that may once have upheld George Fox has been on a journey.

The ‘George Fox chair’ had been upstairs in Exeter Meeting House since before living memory. However, research into the intriguingly-named piece of furniture unearthed that, prior to its move to Exeter around 1890, its home had been Membury Meeting House – a Meeting George Fox visited in 1677 and, therefore, potentially a chair he may have sat in.