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Friends Meeting House, Come-to-Good

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The exterior and interior walls are whitewashed and the simple pews around the walls face onto a central table. There is a gallery or stand at one end from which the meeting could be addressed. The meeting room is unadorned but has wooden panelling and wooden pillars to support the gallery. The roof
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A single-storey extension for an entrance lobby, kitchen and lavatories was built in 1967. Both the main building and the lobby are thatched. There was a major restoration and re-thatching in 2010. The building is still in regular use, with a Quaker worship meeting every Sunday morning.
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because his ideas were at odds with mainstream Christianity at the time. However people wanted to hear what he had to say and a group met regularly from 1680. They wanted a simple place in which to meet, and built a cob-and-thatch meeting house.
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structure can be seen above and the underside of the thatch. The glass in the windows is thought to be older than the building, having been recycled from another building.
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There is a burial ground but only five headstones, all belonging to members of the Magor family, who died in the 19th century. It is the burial place of
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Memoirs of the Life of Catherine Phillips, to which are added some of her Epistles
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Quaker meeting house in Come-to-Good, Cornwall, England
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Religious buildings and structures completed in 1710
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Come-to-Good
Kea, Cornwall
50°13′21″N 5°04′03″W / 50.2224°N 5.0676°W / 50.2224; -5.0676
Listed Building
1140860
Friends Meeting House, Come-to-Good is located in Cornwall

meeting house
Society of Friends
Come-to-Good
Kea
Truro
Cornwall
George Fox
Religious Society of Friends
blasphemy
Listed building
cob
Catherine Payton Phillips


Iconic Cornwall
ISBN
978-0-906720-88-2
Historic England
"The Friends Meeting House (Grade I) (1140860)"
National Heritage List for England
"Friends Meeting House, Come-to-Good"
Memoirs of the Life of Catherine Phillips, to which are added some of her Epistles

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