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A programme of visits and talks is published each year with details on this Events page.
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After the AGM (20-30 minutes) Nina Rothewell will give a short talk and 3 minute film about the centre. Nigel Rothwell will then lead a walk round Jordans Village.
Refreshment s will be available on arrival and throughout the the afternoon in Penn Room.
Background History: Statement of Significance
A fine and little-altered late seventeenth-century meeting house, with an older burial ground in which are buried several Quakers of national and
international significance. Jordans is a building and site of exceptional heritage significance.
Evidential value:
The meeting house was built in 1688 and retains its historic character to an unusually complete degree, despite a fire in 2005. Features such as the fixed
seating in the elders’ stand, the gallery shutters and the headstones in the burial ground are all evocative of Quaker traditions and values. The making
good of the building following the fire is itself part of its evidential value.
Historical value:
This is one of the oldest and most complete meeting houses in the south of England. The burial ground is older still, and contains the graves of several
notable Quakers, amongst them William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, and the poet Thomas Ellwood.
Aesthetic value
The meeting house has a plain, somewhat vernacular late seventeenth-century character, with its old tile roof, cross transom windows and fine brickwork.
The unmodernised interior, with its eighteenth-century fittings and simple finishes, is evocative and moving. The new additions have been carefully
designed to fit into this very sensitive context. The two burial grounds and the wider setting of rolling, wooded country add to its aesthetic value.
Communal value:
With the new facilities the meeting house has been able to extend use by community groups. Even without these, the outward appearance of the
building and its contribution to the local scene and history lend it communa
Book through https://ticketsource.co.uk/buckinghamshire-gardens-trust . No charge for this AGM and event