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THE MEETING HOUSE RINGWOOD
FORTHCOMING EVENTS AT THE MEETING HOUSE
2008
2008
- Monday 2nd June - 11th Pedal Car Race Exhibition
- Thursday 12th June - 'The Open Road' A matinee performance aimed at
the over 50's, 2.30pm
- Saturday 14th June - 20th Photographic Exhibition of local wildlife
by Phil Green
- Tuesday 1st July - Thursday 14th August - Greyfriars Golden Anniversary
Exhibition of 50 years of Ringwood & District Association
- Friday 11th July 2008 - Jazz at the Meeting House - 8.00pm. Doors
open at 7.30pm, Tickets £6
Kindly Sponsored by Waitrose. Musicians: David Shepherd and Chris Walker
plus rhythm, David Shepherd: Britain's Number 1 Jazz Clarinettist. Chris
Walker: Jazz Broadcaster, Clarinet & Saxophones.
- Swing fever: A fond look back at the glorious music and song from the
1930's through the 'swing era' with the tunes of Benny Goodman - Duke
Ellington - Jimmy Dorsey - Artie Shaw - Count Basie and more ... much
more! Tel: 01425 474972.
- Wednesday 16th July - Hampshire Genealogical Society Meeting
7.30pm
- Friday 15th -Saturday 16th August - Ringwood Quilters Open Days,
Open 10am - 4pm
- Monday 18th - Saturday 30th August - Art Exhibition by Hampshire
Artists
- Thursday 11th - Saturday 13th September - English Heritage Open Days
- Free entry. Open 10am - 4pm
- Tuesday 7th October - Forest Forge 'Stamping, Shouting & Singing
Home'. 7.30pm. Tickets £TBA (including Tea
or Coffee) available at the Meeting House or Tel: 01425 474972 or visit www.forestforge.co.uk
- Monday 27th October - Saturday 15th November - The Fallen Dead of the
Avon Valley & Local Airfields Remembrance Exhibition at The
Meeting House, Meeting House Lane, Ringwood, 50p admission to include
tea or coffee. Monday - Saturday 10:00am to 12:00noon, Wednesday 10:00am to
2:30pm.
- Monday 15th December - Jack and the Beanstalk - Forest Forge
Theatre Christmas Entertainment for all the Family, 7pm. Tickets £TBA (including Tea
or Coffee) available at the Meeting House or Tel: 01425 474972 or visit www.forestforge.co.uk
OPENING TIMES
MONDAY TO SATURDAY - 10:00am. - 12:00noon, entrance 50p, includes coffee or
tea, Wednesdays only 10:00am - 2:30pm.
Further details of all these events from Mrs Mary Baldwin 01425 474972
Ringwood Meeting House was built in 1727 by a group of Presbyterians. They were
known as non-conformists or dissenters because they did not conform to the Church of England's
Articles of Religion as laid down in the Book of Common Prayer. They wished to worship God in their
own way, without the dogma of bishops, creeds etc. Their tastes were what we could term 'puritan' -
plain and unadorned.
The Meeting House in Ringwood is the only dissenting Meeting House in the county of Hampshire to
survive from the period before 1800 in a virtually unaltered state. Its interior is one of the best
surviving examples of a small Meeting House in the country with galleries on three sides. The
architectural style of the Meeting House reflects early Georgian taste in general; the building is
symmetrical, with plain walls and windows. Its boxed family pews, which we now find so unusual, were
very common in England during the 18th century but were removed from most churches during Victorian
times.
The building was known as the Upper or Great Meeting House during the 18th century to distinguish it
from the Independents who broke away to build their own chapel known as the Lower Meeting House (now
Trinity United Reformed Church). The old registers of the Upper Meeting House show baptisms from
1748 and burials from 1815.
During the 19th century the congregation of Ringwood Meeting House becoming Unitarian. The building
was then known as St Thomas's Chapel, until it reverted to its original name in about the 1930's. In
1976 the Unitarians found they were unable to maintain the building and combined with a congregation
in Bournemouth.
The Meeting House is now run by the Ringwood Meeting House Association, a registered charity which
funds the day-today running of the centre. Volunteers are often able to help with enquiries about
local or family history. In the upper galleries of the building is a collection of old photographs
of Ringwood and other memorabilia. Downstairs there is an area for temporary exhibitions (see below
for details).
OPENING TIMES
MONDAY TO SATURDAY - 10am. - 12noon, entrance 50p, includes coffee or tea., Wednesdays only
10am - 2.30pm.
WHERE TO FIND US
FORTHCOMING EVENTS AT THE MEETING HOUSE
2007
2007
- Friday 29th June - Maybe Baby by Forest Forge Theatre Company at
2.30pm The Meeting House, Meeting House Lane,
Ringwood. A matinee play written by David Haworth and directed by Lucy
Bellamy, written with senior citizens in mind. Tickets £4.00 (including Tea
or Coffee) available at the Meeting House or Tel: 01425 474972 or visit www.forestforge.co.uk
- Saturday 7th - Archaeological Exhibition, Meeting House, Meeting House
Lane, Ringwood, 10:00am on wards.
- Saturday 7th July - Swing Fever - a look back at the glorious music
and song from the 1930's through the 'swing era'', Meeting House, Meeting
House Lane, Ringwood, 8:00pm, Tickets £6 available at the Meeting House or Tel: 01425 474972.
- Monday 23rd July to Friday 31st August - Of Maps and Memories - an
exhibition by John Hawkins, based on his personal researches since 2005 - Meeting House, Meeting
House Lane, Ringwood. Tel: 01425 474972.
- Thursday 6th September to Saturday 27th October - The Magnet of Cod - an
exhibition of historic links between Ringwood and Newfoundland - Meeting House, Meeting
House Lane, Ringwood. Tel: 01425 474972.
- Monday 29th October to Saturday 17th November, World War Two Local
Airfields and The Fallen Dead of Avon Valley at The
Meeting House, Meeting House Lane, Ringwood, 50p admission to include
tea or coffee. Monday - Saturday 10:00am to 12:00noon, Wednesday 10:00am to
2:30pm.
- Monday 19th November to Saturday 15th December - Ringwood Camera Club
Annual Photography Exhibition at The Meeting House, Meeting House Lane,
Ringwood. For more information visit their web site: www.ringwoodcameraclub.co.uk
or ask at The Meeting House, Monday - Saturday 10:00am to 12:00noon, Wednesday 10:00am to
2:30pm.
OPENING TIMES
MONDAY TO SATURDAY - 10:00am. - 12:00noon, entrance 50p, includes coffee or
tea, Wednesdays only 10:00am - 2:30pm.
Further details of all these events from Mrs Mary Baldwin 01425 474972
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