SNN110526 - Friends Meeting House, Kettering: Historic Building Record, January 2016

A small red brick meeting house built in 1869 on the foundations of an older meeting house and enlarged in 1903. Behind the meeting house is a burial ground which was in use from the 1730s. Both the exterior and the interior of the building have seen some alteration but the building is still of medium heritage significance overall. Evidential value: As the meeting house is said to be built on the foundations of its predecessor, the building must be considered to be of high evidential value. Historical value: As a reasonably well preserved example of a mid-nineteenth century Quaker meeting house, the building is of medium historical value. Aesthetic value: Despite various alterations the interior especially preserves something of its earlier character and the building is of medium aesthetic value. Communal value:There has been a Quaker meeting in a building on this site more or less continuously since 1732 and the present building is also used by other community groups and is of high communal value.