Quakers hope to open lodge soon (From Salisbury Journal)

Quakers hope to open lodge soon

5:01pm Friday 15th August 2008 in

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THE landmark Kennet Lodge on the Old Manor site is due to become the new meeting house for Salisbury's Quakers.

But it has taken much longer than anticipated to get the conversion of the Grade II Listed building under way, largely because they will not apply for or accept any funding connected with the Lottery.

"We want to keep our testimony against gambling,"

explained a member of the Salisbury Quaker Meeting, Mrs Kathryn Sealey.

The Dorset and South Wiltshire Area Meeting of the Quakers, of which Salisbury is part, owns the building, and has been applying to various trusts and funding bodies and collecting amongst Quakers both locally and nationally.

"We are hopeful that something might materialise later this year," said Mrs Sealey.

There is a building behind Kennet Lodge, not visible from Wilton Road, which also belongs to the Quakers and that, too, needs refurbishment.

"Then there is the garden, which stretches quite a long way back, and that, we anticipate, will be a car park as well, so we will be continuing fundraising,"

said Mrs Sealey.

The Salisbury Quaker Meeting House site in the Wilton Road.