Building survey by Essex County Council at the Quaker Meeting House, Stansted, 2014 - EEX59184

NRHE data transfer: As a relatively modern building, the meeting house itself has low heritage significance. However, it was built on the site of an earlier meeting house and the burial ground dates back to 1703; the site has high significance. Evidential value: The current meeting house is a modern building with no evidential value. However, it was built on the site of an earlier meeting house with attached burial ground. The site and the burial ground to the rear have considerable evidential value. Historical value: The meeting house has medium historical value as a prefabricated post-war timber building, built on the site of an earlier building and later encased in brick. The burial ground dates back to 1703 and contains a number of eighteenth and nineteenth-century headstones. The site has high historical value. Aesthetic value: The meeting house has low aesthetic value. Communal value: The building is in use as a Quaker meeting house and for community groups. This and the presence of the burial ground give the building and site considerable communal value.