| Description | A Quaker meeting was first started in 1655 in Shipston-on-Stour by William Parre. By 1682, it is thought there were 78 Friends attending the meeting. A meeting house was converted from a cottage leased from the Dean and Chapter of Worcester cathedral in 1685, which was eventually bought by Friends in 1875. By 1689, there were two additional houses in Shipston-on-Stour registered as Quaker meeting houses. The Monthly Meeting absorbed the Preparative Meetings at Armscote, Campden and Stow-on-the-Wold. In 1790, Shipston Monthly Meeting was amalgamated with Warwickshire South Monthly Meeting (see SF/2/1/6). The meeting was laid down in 1956, but the meeting house and burial ground continue to be owned by Friends. Warwickshire County Council leases the meeting house for use as a local library.
See the relevant sections in SF/3 for further information about each Preparative Meeting for which we hold records (records for some meetings have not survived but there are usually references to them in the Quarterly (SF/1) and Monthly Meeting (SF/2) minutes.
See SF/2/1/1/29/5 for copy minutes of Worcestershire Quarterly Meeting. |