The year 2009 sees the three-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Burford Quaker Meeting House. But if a Quakers from the eighteenth century were to return today, they would find the building virtually unchanged. A ramp has recently been added to the exterior to provide disabled access, but otherwise the original fabric remains largely as our imaginary Friends would have seen it three centuries ago.
Beautiful in its simplicity, both inside and out, the Meeting House is built from locally quarried limestone, and has a part-hipped Stonesfield slate roof, while the interior, a lofty room with a gallery above, has much original timber work, including pine panelling.
Adjacent is the newly designed garden, once the Quaker burial ground. This includes a summer- house, and a flower-bed stocked with plants discovered and introduced to the U.K. by Quaker botanists. Wooden benches invite Friends and visitors alike to rest and reflect awhile in this tranquil and historic environment.

Quaker Meeting House Garden Deeds 1770