Norwich Quaker Meeting House — it’s our bicentenary!
Quaker Meeting House, Upper Goat Lane, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 1EW
Our big day 'living history' day will be Saturday the 19th of September, between 10am and 3pm. More for more details: www.norwichquakers.org.uk/post/bicentenary
The Meeting House will also be open at various times during the week and we are planning events open to the public.
Norwich Quakers invite you to come and look around, take in some music and refreshments in the garden (weather permitting). The Meeting House has a quiet elegance free from ornament and ostentation with plain walls and high windows reflecting the Quaker testimony of 'simplicity'. Its aim, to minimise distraction from its spiritual function.
When not being used for silent Quaker Meetings on Wednesdays and Sundays it doubles as a simple yet functional space available for hire by community groups, choirs, charities and functions.
Quakers first met on this site on Upper Goat Lane in the 1670s. In 1700 there were probably 500 Quakers in Norwich. Norwich has always been an important Quaker centre. In the early part of the nineteenth century, when the present meeting house was built, Norfolk Quakers like Joseph Gurney, his sister Elizabeth Fry and their Anglican brother-in-law Thomas Buxton were nationally conspicuous social reformers. For both these reasons, the Goat Lane Meeting House has exceptional historical value.
Timings
- Saturday 19 September:
- 19th September – (Exhibition is open various times Sunday 13th September to Sunday 20th September)
Location & directions
Quaker Meeting House, Upper Goat Lane, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 1EW
- Directions:
- Directions: Please use public parking unless you require disabled parking. Limited availability on site. To get to the Meeting House in Upper Goat Lane, the one-way system means that when you come off the Grapes Hill roundabout (at the first exit after Grapes Hill) you take the second left into Willow Lane (there's a second hand bookshop on the corner), then down the hill to Micawber's Tavern pub on the right where you turn right into Pottergate. Drive along Pottergate, turning right into Upper Goat Lane shortly after the small Pay and Display carpark. The Meeting House car park is 15 yards up the road on the right but places are limited. what3words: spun.silent.slot
- Contact on day:
- Ruth Murray: [email protected]
Booking information
- Pre-booking requirement:
- Pre-booking not required
Accessibility details
Please use public parking unless you require disabled parking. Limited availability on site. The downstairs Large Meeting House and the Long Room are accessible for wheelchair users but not the upstairs Gallery or Small Meeting House.
