The Old Meeting House (Now Dewey House), North Row, Warminster

Some notes compiled by Percy Trollope:

The barn, in Beastleaze meadow, was used for Worship by a numerous people in 1687. The Congregation left the barn and removed to a larger building in 1691. This place of service also was superseded by a more substantial erection in 1704 which had been known by the name Old Meeting, became the “Girls British School” in North Row. It was opened by Dr. Mather of Boston, North America. In 1785 it was used as a nonconformist Sunday School. In 1872 the Girls School moved from Common Close to North Row. The Girls School moved back to the Close in 1923. The infants occupied the North Row school. It was in 1960 when the congregation, which had dwindled away, died out. The Meeting House was sold. It was later a free Library.

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