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Jordans Friends
Meeting House
Welders Lane, Jordans, Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire.
HP9 2SN, U.K
T: +44 (0)1494 876594
E: enquiry@jordans-quakers.org.uk
Meetings for worship
Sunday at 10.30 for approximately
one hour
Meeting House
Welders Lane, Jordans, Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire.
HP9 2SN, U.K
T: +44 (0)1494 876594
E: enquiry@jordans-
Meetings for worship
Sunday at 10.30 for approximately
one hour
“True silence is the rest of the mind; and is to the spirit what sleep is the body, nourishment and refreshment” William Penn
In the mid 17th century, before dissenters were allowed to build meeting houses, local Quakers gathered in various homes throughout south Buckinghamshire, and eventually a worshipping group formed at Jordans Farm, which had originally been part of the manor of Grove Place, owned by Thomas Russell and then his son William.
By 1669 William Russell, Thomas’s grandson, was holding a “conventicle” (a secret or unauthorised assembly for worship) in the Jordans farmhouse, attended by sixty or seventy people, with Isaac Penington as their “head” or “teacher”.
In 1671 William sold about a quarter of an acre of the Well Close to Thomas Ellwood and others for the purpose of a burial ground. As soon as King James 11 issued the Declaration of Indulgence in 1687, which stopped the direct persecution of Friends, licenses for 100+ Meeting Houses were taken out.
‘New Jordans’ as it was then known, was one of these and a 4 acre plot adjacent to the burial ground was sold to John Penington for £400 in June 1688. We are told that the building was finished in four months and the first Meeting for Worship was held on 30th September 1688.
By 1669 William Russell, Thomas’s grandson, was holding a “conventicle” (a secret or unauthorised assembly for worship) in the Jordans farmhouse, attended by sixty or seventy people, with Isaac Penington as their “head” or “teacher”.
In 1671 William sold about a quarter of an acre of the Well Close to Thomas Ellwood and others for the purpose of a burial ground. As soon as King James 11 issued the Declaration of Indulgence in 1687, which stopped the direct persecution of Friends, licenses for 100+ Meeting Houses were taken out.
‘New Jordans’ as it was then known, was one of these and a 4 acre plot adjacent to the burial ground was sold to John Penington for £400 in June 1688. We are told that the building was finished in four months and the first Meeting for Worship was held on 30th September 1688.
Updated: 25 August 2008
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