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Friends Meeting House Burial Ground, Hounslow

Introduction

The early burials were in the northern part and are not marked with gravestones, although its use for burial is recorded on a wall plaque. The burial ground to the south that was given by Sarah Angell in 1824 has simple rows of headstones set among the grass and a row of yew trees along one boundary, with other trees and shrubs. The uniformity and simplicity of gravestones in Quaker burial grounds reflects the Quaker philosophy of equality.

First records of a Friends Meeting at Brentford date from 1659, which lapsed when John Woolrich, at whose house the meetings were held, was arrested. In 1706 meetings were held in a barn in Old Brentford but from 1731 there was a movement to set up a new Meeting House. This led to the purchase in 1785 of a small plot of land from Benjamin Angell, a wealthy Quaker. The earliest burials took place in the area to the north of the Meeting House. In 1824 an additional strip of land to the south was given by Sarah Angell for a burial ground and it was used as such from 1855 onwards, remaining open for burials today.

Sources consulted:

R W Harris, 'Quakers at Brentford and Isleworth' in Middlesex Quarterly No. 2, Winter 1953; History on Brentford and Isleworth Quakers' website

For more information see http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.asp?ID=HOU025

Visitor Access, Directions & Contacts

Access contact details

The site is open occasionally, there being access when the Meeting House is open.

Directions

Rail: Syon Lane. Bus: 235, 237, 267, H28

Owners

Religious Society of Friends

History

Period

  • 18th Century (1701 to 1800)
  • Late 18th Century (1767 to 1800)
Key Information

Type

Funerary Site

Purpose

Sacred / Ritual / Funerary

Principal Building

Religious Ritual And Funerary

Period

18th Century (1701 to 1800)

Survival

Extant

Open to the public

Yes

References

Contributors

  • London Parks and Gardens Trust