Law Library (EHER 31506)

Purpose built as a Friends meeting house in 1823-4, when it replaced an earlier building in Baddow Road. Quaker meetings were held in this building from 1824 to 1957. Large open hall. Front with pedimented gable and blank circular window. Ionic porch with 4 columns with entasis. Continuous sill band, and 4 arched recesses to front. Side elevations each of 5 windows placed above the sill band, round headed with small pane sashes. Roof pitched and slate clad.

Historic building survey, 2012 In June 2012, Archaeological Solutions Ltd conducted historic building recording at three surviving structures on the former Anglia Ruskin University campus site, Victoria Road South, Chelmsford. The Grade II Listed Anne Knight Building was constructed as the town’s Quaker Meeting House in 1824. Though extensively modernised internally, it remains little altered from its original neoclassical form. Examination of the roof revealed a well-preserved structure of oak and Baltic softwood. The lower side-wings were, at the time of the survey suffering extensive water ingress and the effects of rot. <1> NRHE data transfer: Purpose built as a Friends meeting house in 1823-4, when it replaced an earlier building in Baddow Road. Quaker meetings were held in this building from 1824 to 1957. Large open hall. Front with pedimented gable and blank circular window. Ionic porch with 4 columns with entasis. Continuous sill band, and 4 arched recesses to front. Side elevations each of 5 windows placed above the sill band, round headed with small pane sashes. Roof pitched and slate clad. <2> Additional reference <3>