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When George Fox preached hereabouts in 1652 it was in the churchyard of St Andrew's, and later on Firbank Fell, because the established church would never let this heretic near their pulpits. His "Quaker" creed became tolerated in Cromwell's time, and this Meeting House was established in 1675.
Brigflatts Meeting House or Briggflatts Meeting House is a Friends Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), near Sedbergh, Cumbria, in north-western England. Built in 1675, it is the second oldest Friends Meeting House in England. It has been listed Grade I on the National Heritage List for England since March 1954. It is the subject of a twelve-line poem titled "At Briggflatts meetinghouse" by British modernist poet Basil Bunting. Bunting's poem was written in 1975 for the 300th anniversary of the meeting house's construction.
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