A photograph of the Friends Meeting House, The Green, Norton. We believe the building became a Methodist Chapel c1825 and around 1902 was restored as Meeting House.
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A photograph of the Friends Meeting House, The Green, Norton. We believe the building became a Methodist Chapel c1825 and around 1902 was restored as Meeting House.
I am interested in the Friends’ Meeting House on Norton Green and would love to see a photograph of the original barn. This was a farm. (The present building dates only from around 1901. And in Norton House, the residence of the Hogg family who gave an old barn and an adjoining field to serve as Meeting House for the Quakers in the early 1670s. The story is that the Hoggs did not get on well with the vicar of St Mary’s across the way. It is said that the meeting house, an old barn, was gifted to the Quakers by a member of the Hogg family.
It was for a short time in the late forties early fifties a school styled the Norton Green Private School.