Event Description
Come and have look around Malvern Meeting House, a Grade II-listed example of ’30s Quaker architecture.
Malvern Quaker Meeting House is a well-known local landmark on Orchard Road, situated between Malvern College and the Malvern Theatres. It is not ordinarily open to the public, except when its rooms are being used for worship or by hirers for weddings, meetings and children’s play sessions. The Meeting House was designed and built for Malvern Quakers in 1937-38, and its main room is used twice a week for Quaker Meetings for Worship.
In 1937, Malvern Quakers bought the plot of land in Orchard Road and appealed for funds to build a new Meeting House. They were encouraged by the Quaker Cadbury family, and Malvern’s proximity to Bournville led to J R Armstrong, architect to the Bournville Village Trust, being asked to design the building. His design was influenced by Arts and Crafts principles, often used for Meeting Houses in the earlier part of the twentieth century. Historic England, who listed the building in 2019, note that ‘the meeting house is one of only a small number to be purpose-built in this era and remains an excellent example of the tradition as it was to be found in the interwar period’.
Refreshments are free, but donations to a local charity would be welcome.
Timings & Tours
Monday 15 September 2025: 2pm – 5pm
Thursday 18 September 2025: 9am – 12pm
