On the opposite side of the road to the Methodist Chapel is the former meeting house of the Society of Friends (Quakers). Quakerism was founded in around 1652, with George Fox and Margaret Fell generally considered to be the founders. There’s a fairly extensive history of Quakerism at this Wikipedia webpage.
John Gratton (1640-1711), a prominent Quaker preacher and writer who was born in Bonsall, lived in Monyash between 1668 and 1702 and used the village as a base for his missionary tours to many parts of the British Isles. The meeting house was erected shortly after his death, in 1717. It is built of limestone and is lit by a large window and two smaller ones, still glazed with square leaded panes.
Inside the building is a screened gallery which would have been used for visitors and ‘attenders’ not yet in ‘membership’ (fully fledged Quakers).
The Quaker Heritage website has more detail about the Monyash Meeting House at this page.
Photographs by Shirley Johnston