Church of the Week
Come to Good, Cornwall
Completed in 1710, the Come to Good Meeting House near Truro, Cornwall, is one of the oldest Quaker places of worship in the UK. In the late 1600s, Cornwall’s Quakers were facing repression and imprisonment. The Friends were hounded out of their meeting houses and many Cornish Quakers were persecuted and incarcerated. George Fox, the founder of the Quakers, came to Cornwall in 1656. After the Toleration Act of 1689 the local group group felt safe to start work on a simple cob and thatch house, which opened in 1710 and can still be visited every day of the year. However, the picturesque thatched roof is urgently in need of repairs, and the Come to Good Meeting House was added to the Historic England Heritage at Risk register last year. Luckily, we were able to award £35,000 in our latest rounds of grants to help repair the roof, ensuring this remarkable building stays in use for years to come.
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