Ashburton Quakers have acquired a Meeting house. Five years to the day from when Friends held their first Thursday evening Meeting in Ashburton, we collected the keys to The Old Chapel, Foales Court, Ashburton; better known to locals as Church’s wood store. Within minutes we were sitting on two wood sawing benches, among the racking holding a quiet Meeting of thanks. On Saturday 19 December we started removing the racking and Sunday 27 December 2009 we held our ‘bring your own chair Meeting for Worship’.

Ashburton Meeting house started life as a pair of terraced cottages back in the 1600s and was converted to a gospel hall when the railway came to Ashburton in the mid-nineteenth century. For the past thirty years it has been used as a wood store for the local hardware shop and has become a little dilapidated inside but dry and sound in construction. We hope to add luxuries like heating and water over the next couple of years but intend to hold regular Meetings as soon as the racking is removed.

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