West Nottingham Meetinghouse
Appearance
West Nottingham Meetinghouse | |
Location | Harrisville Road (Old MD 268), Rising Sun, Maryland |
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Coordinates | 39°41′12″N 76°4′46″W / 39.68667°N 76.07944°W |
Area | 2.7 acres (1.1 ha) |
Built | 1811 |
NRHP reference No. | 76000988[1] |
Added to NRHP | November 7, 1976 |
The West Nottingham Meetinghouse, or Little Brick Meetinghouse, is a historic Friends meeting house located at Rising Sun, Cecil County, Maryland, United States. It is a brick one-story building built in 1811, rectangularly shaped, and measuring 45 feet, 4 inches by 30 feet.[2] Also on the property is a graveyard.[2] The structure features two entrances, one for women and one for men, and sliding panels to divide the interior space in half, as well as the raised "Elder's Benches."[3]
The West Nottingham Meetinghouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b "National Register Properties in Maryland". mht.maryland.gov. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
- ^ George W. Lutz, III (December 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: West Nottingham Meetinghouse" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
External links
[edit]- West Nottingham Meetinghouse, Cecil County, including undated photo, at Maryland Historical Trust
Categories:
- Quaker meeting houses in Maryland
- Churches in Cecil County, Maryland
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
- Churches completed in 1811
- 19th-century Quaker meeting houses
- National Register of Historic Places in Cecil County, Maryland
- Eastern Shore, Maryland Registered Historic Place stubs
- Cecil County, Maryland, geography stubs
- Quakerism stubs