Eye - 17 April 2015

From memorials to markers

by Eye 17th April 2015

Past Quakers remembered

Blewbury in Oxfordshire might be better known today for its Norman church, but a local Friend wants people to know that there was once a Meeting house there, too, and has turned his enthusiasm into stone.

Blewbury Meeting House was built in or around 1680, rebuilt in 1713, and destroyed or sold in 1804/5. Quaker Meetings were held from about 1668 to 1760, and names and events recorded at Newbury and Reading Quarterly Meetings. Friends were buried at Quakers Croft, at the edge of Blewbury.