{"id":22907,"date":"2019-06-04T18:15:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T17:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=22907"},"modified":"2019-06-04T18:15:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T17:15:58","slug":"ihbcs-heritage-from-the-doorstep-kidderminster-shuttles-plaudits-for-malvern-quaker-meeting-house-gii-listing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=22907","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s \u2018Heritage from the doorstep\u2019: Kidderminster Shuttle\u2019s plaudits for Malvern Quaker Meeting House GII listing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22908 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Friends_Meeting_House_Orchard_Rd_Malvern_heritage_quaker_website_040619.png\" alt=\"building exterior and interior\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" \/>The Kidderminster Shuttle<\/em> is celebrating the news that the Quaker Meeting House in Malvern\u2019s Orchard Road &#8211; close to the town centre and designed by J R Armstrong &#8211; has been listed Grade II (GII) by Historic England.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image:\u00a0heritage.quaker.org.uk<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>The Kidderminster Shuttle<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>The venue in Orchard Road is one of 11 across the country which have been listed or have had their grading uplifted. The building was designed by J R Armstrong, architect of the Bournville Village Trust. It is described as a \u2018well-articulated Arts and Crafts design reflecting the tastes of the period and constructed using high quality materials,\u2019 which \u2018expresses simplicity, appropriate for a Quaker building, in combination with restrained external and internal detailing\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Quakers meetings are not recorded in Malvern until 1856, when a large room over a stable in Portland Road was used. In 1937, the Society of Friends bought land in Orchard Road and appealed for funds to build a new meeting house, encouraged by the Cadbury family of chocolate fame. The family attended meetings when on holiday in the area. The furniture in the building was designed and built by Brynmawr Furniture Makers, which had been formed by Quakers in Wales during the Depression in an attempt to relieve the mass unemployment and economic hardship of the time. The meeting house was formally opened on July 2, 1938, by Charles Cadbury.<\/p>\n<p>Ingrid Greenhow, of the Religious Society of Friends, said: \u2018I am delighted that Quaker places of worship are recognised as important elements in our national heritage. It is particularly heartening to see 19th and 20th century meeting houses being listed.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kidderminstershuttle.co.uk\/news\/regional\/17637603.quaker-house-is-listed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more background see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/heritage.quaker.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heritage.quaker.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kidderminster Shuttle is celebrating the news that the Quaker Meeting House in Malvern\u2019s Orchard Road &#8211; close to the town centre and designed by J R Armstrong &#8211; has been listed Grade II (GII) by Historic England. image:\u00a0heritage.quaker.org.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22909,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22907\/revisions\/22909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}