Guest leviset Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 I moved to Sheffield in 1990, started working here in late 1988. I remember the new Quaker Meeting House was being built around about then. I'm interested in where the Friends Meeting House was in the 1950s in Sheffield - did they build the new one on the site of the old one? Also does anyone have pictures of the 1950s Friends Meeting House, both inside and outside? Thanks Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HughW Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 The meeting house before the current one was the other side of the Cathedral at Hartshead, and it's on map number 1 in our amazing (and growing) maps section! Hugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 The meeting house before the current one was the other side of the Cathedral at Hartshead, and it's on map number 1 in our amazing (and growing) maps section! Hugh The Maps are quite nice aren't they ? Shame I got distracted by a listing on 1845 Pubs and their Keepers - kept me Happy for two days (I have to compare previous years and the year after to shown earlier keepers or successors. So far I've added just one name, but, a very important one - a name linking to a Pub I didn't have a name for - another brickwall knocked down. I'm Happy as Larry, but I haven't done any Maps today ... sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 Interior of Friend's Meeting House, Hartshead. 1905.s05100 Friends' Meeting House, Hartshead after air raids. December 1940. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s01202&pos=15&action=zoom&id=5060 Can anybody help with an image of the Friends Meeting House before 1940. Construction of "New" Friends Meeting House, Hartshead. 30th January 1964. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s33106&pos=12&action=zoom&id=67278 Friends Meeting House, Hartshead. 1966. u11714 Is there a photograph of the Interior of this building? Friends Meeting House, corner of Vicar Lane and St. James Street. April 1991. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s33107&pos=10&action=zoom&id=67279 Interior of Quaker Meeting House, St. James Street. 2015. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc01518&pos=2&action=zoom&id=66810 Plan of The [Quaker] Meeting House and burial ground, [1701] https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03652&pos=21&action=zoom&id=99202 Plan of The [Quaker] Meeting House and burying ground, and the widening of Meetinghouse Lane, [c. 1796-1801] https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03653&pos=22&action=zoom&id=99203 Plan of The [Quaker] Meeting House and burying ground, and the widening of Meetinghouse Lane, [c. 1796-1801] https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03654&pos=23&action=zoom&id=99204 Were the bodies reinterred? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southside Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 Extract from the Sheffield Directory and Guide 1828. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 National Churches Trust, Brief History of Friends Meeting House, Sheffield. https://www.nationalchurchestrust.org/church/friends-meeting-house-sheffield 350 years of Quaker Meetings and Burials in Sheffield and York, A Brief History by Patrick Comerford. https://www.patrickcomerford.com/2022/08/350-years-of-quaker-meetings-and.html?m=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 22 minutes ago, southside said: Extract from the Sheffield Directory and Guide 1828. Watson's Walk. Land purchased of Francis Fenton to be exchanged for an addition to the Meeting House Burying Ground ... [1782] https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04284&pos=32&action=zoom&id=105963 Chair reputed to have been used by George Fox in the Friend's Meeting House (first building) s07890 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 Ground once assigned by Joseph Binney for the erection of a Meeting House, North Church Street, [1797] https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03534&pos=26&action=zoom&id=98806 Was it intended as a Quaker Meeting House? Was it ever built? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 Building Lots on Furnace Hill, [c. 1778-1788] Surveyor: William Fairbank II. Marked on reverse 'No. 3'. The western end of Furnace Hill nearest Thomas Bryant's Meeting House, subdivided for buildings; tenants; measurements; rents. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03080&pos=25&action=zoom&id=97977 Was Thomas Bryant's Meeting House a "Quaker" Meeting House? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 Friends' Adult School, Hartshead s09421 Friends' Adult School, Hartshead after air raid December 1940. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s01203&pos=4&action=zoom&id=5061 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 Old Quaker Burial Ground, Broad Lane. A Plan of Tenements and Ground demised to Ann Twybill [in Broad Lane, one near the Quaker burial ground the other at Broad Lane End] 1791. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03092&pos=17&action=zoom&id=98038 Map of a Close belonging to the Duke of Norfolk now subdivided into gardens, and late under Lease with the Golden Cross in Sheffield. 1777. Shows 'Burying ground of the people called Quakers' and proposed route of Garden Street. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc02093&pos=13&action=zoom&id=76286 Plan of a close adjoining to the Broad Lane with the Gardens etc. formerly part of the said Close, and of another Close contiguous there to as it is now d[ivided] into Gardens the whole being the property of the Duke of Norfolk. 1768. Tenants names given. Shows 'Burying ground of the people called Quakers'. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc02095&pos=14&action=zoom&id=76290 Were the bodies reinterred? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 On 10/12/2023 at 00:01, Ponytail said: Building Lots on Furnace Hill, [c. 1778-1788] Surveyor: William Fairbank II. Marked on reverse 'No. 3'. The western end of Furnace Hill nearest Thomas Bryant's Meeting House, subdivided for buildings; tenants; measurements; rents. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03080&pos=25&action=zoom&id=97977 Was Thomas Bryant's Meeting House a "Quaker" Meeting House? Furnace Hill - Lots demised to the occupiers by the Duke of Norfolk, Samuel Shore, and Thomas Broadbent. The plan is mainly in the handwriting of the second William, who died in 1801. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04110&pos=1386&action=zoom&id=103696 Names marked: Joshua Ball, Sylvanus Betts, George Binks, Thomas Broadbent, Robert Broomhead,Thomas Bryant, Thomas Bryant's Meeting House [corner of Scotland Street], John Cockayne, John Cocker, John Cowen, Samuel Doncaster, Mary Edwards, John Eyre, Jacob Fenton, George Fletcher, Joshua Fowler’s heirs, Ann Fox, Thomas Goddard, David Goodnorth, Widow Greaves, Thomas Hardy, John Jennings, George Loxley, John Matthews, John Morton, Sarah Morton, Robert Pinder, Robert Radcliff, Thomas Robinson, John Shore, James Smith, John Stacey, Joseph Swift, Thomas Watson, William Walton, and Edward Windle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Was Thomas Bryant's Meeting House a "Quaker" Meeting House? No. Thomas Bryant was an itinerant Methodist preacher in 1763. He was popular, though quiet in his manner, but seemed to arouse differences in the Sheffield area, possibly due to his wearing of clerical garb. Wesley was appealed to, and decided to move Bryant to Leeds, but Bryant's friends didn't agree with this and he left the New Connexion movement. He and his friends tried to take over the Mulberry street chapel, which was not firmly linked with the Wesleyan body. This failed and Bryant went to London for a few months. On his return to Sheffield in 1764, he took charge of a congregation, preaching in a private house. The Scotland street (corner with Furnace Hill) chapel was built for him, though the congregation was poor and it was probably not built until around 1776. Under a deed dated 8th November 1767, Bryant leased for nine years from John Taylor (miller of Treeton), a piece of land in Scotland street, with cottage and garden , currently occupied by Joseph Antt. The lease recorded that Bryant wanted to buy the land but didn't have the funds, so a provision was made to sell it for £200 during the period of lease, if funds became available. By the time he raised the funds and bought the land in November 1776, the associated deed states that upon the land was "a chapel or meeting house, lately erected..... and now in possession of the said Thomas Bryant". Part of the land was leasehold from the Duke of Norfolk for 800 years, but the building was the personal property of Mr Bryant. In 1796 Bryant was in failing health and possibly finding the running of the chapel difficult. In December 1796 the preacher Alex Kilham was invited to Sheffield for a few days, and by 1797 the chapel was in the hands of the New Connexion with Kilham as its minister. Bryant died early in 1805 and was buried in his chapel, near the pulpit. In his will he left all his property to his nephew, also called Thomas Bryant. The following year Bryant (2) bought the equity of the land under the Duke of Norfolk's Settled Estates Act, for £35 10s. thus converting it to freehold. After the demolition and rebuilding of the chapel in 1828/9 proper trustees were appointed on behalf of the New Connexion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 1 minute ago, Edmund said: Was Thomas Bryant's Meeting House a "Quaker" Meeting House? No. Thomas Bryant was an itinerant Methodist preacher in 1763. He was popular, though quiet in his manner, but seemed to arouse differences in the Sheffield area, possibly due to his wearing of clerical garb. Wesley was appealed to, and decided to move Bryant to Leeds, but Bryants friends didn't agree with this and he left the New Connexion movement. He and his friends tried to take over the Mulberry street chapel, which was not firmly linked with the Wesleyan body. This failed and Bryant went to London for a few months. On his return to Sheffield in 1764 he took charge of a congregation, preaching in a private house. The Scotland street (corner with Furnace Hill) chapel was built for him, though the congregation was poor and it was probably not built until around 1778. Under a deed dated 8th November 1767, Bryant leased for nine years from John Taylor (miller of Treeton), a piece of land in Scotland street, with cottage and garden , currently occupied by Joseph Antt. The lease recorded that Bryant wanted to buy the land but didn't have the funds, so a provision was made to sell it for £200 during the period of lease, if funds became available. By the time he raised the funds and bought the land in November 1776, the associated deed states that upon the land was "a chapel or meeting house, lately erected..... and now in possession of the said Thomas Bryant". Part of the land was leasehold from the Duke of Norfolk for 800 years, but the building was the personal property of Mr Bryant. Bryant died early in 1805 and was buried in his chapel, near the pulpit. In his will he left all his property to his nephew, also called Thomas Bryant. The following year Bryant (2) bought the equity of the land under the Duke of Norfolk's Settled Estates Act, for £35 10s. thus converting it to freehold. In 1796 Bryant was in failing health and possibly finding the running of the chapel difficult. In December 1796 the preacher Alex Kilham was invited to Sheffield for a few days, and by 1797 the chapel was in the hands of the New Connexion with Kilham as its minister. After the demolition and rebuilding of the chapel in 1828/9 proper trustees were appointed on behalf of the New Connexion. Thanks Edmund for clarifying it. Read where for a time the Friends met in various houses and couldn't find any other reference to Bryant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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