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Heritage Open Days CHURCHES TO VISIT GUIDED TOURS & WALKS Be a tourist in your own Borough during… See table for days and times of opening. See table for days and times of these events. All places, walks or tours are free, but booking is either essential, required, or recommended Heritage Open Days in Tunbridge Wells are sponsored by: All Saints’ Church, Tudeley, Tonbridge TN11 0NZ for a number of them, because only a limited number of visitors can be accommodated. A medieval English ‘village’ church, but the only one in the world to have all its twelve stained-glass windows designed by the great Russian artist Marc Chagall. Go and find out why. Assembly Hall Theatre, Crescent Road, TN1 2LU A behind-the-scenes tour of this Tunbridge Wells’ theatre. Booking required – 01892 554 127 St. Andrew’s Church, Paddock Wood Grosvenor & Hilbert Park TN1 2HU Built in 1851, bombed in 1940 and rebuilt in 1953, St, Andrew’s is now a joint Anglican Methodist church. Exhibition and guided walk on history and recent restoration of the Park. Opened in 1889, it was Historical display. Coffee Morning and Sponsored Hymnathon in aid of Church organ appeal. Tunbridge Wells’ first public park, and was designed by the noted landscape gardener Robert Marnock. St. Augustine’s Catholic Church, Crescent Road, TN1 2LY Hawkenbury Cemetery Walk, Benhall Mill Road, TN2 5JJ Built in 1975, replacing its earlier 1838 and smaller building in Grosvenor Road, it reflects the modern and supported by: Meet at the twin Burial Chapels in the centre of the cemetery at 2.30pm 3-sided approach to religious worship. A guided walk by the Friends of the Cemetery to look at Memorial Symbols to be seen there and what The Heritage Open Days National Partnership St. Barnabas’s Church, Stanley Road, TN1 2RH they signify. Take a look round the refurbished Victorian Chapel afterwards. Ample parking. Imposing Victorian neo-Gothic church, built in 1887; tours of the church and mortuary chapel with its rare Historic Cranbrook Walk, Meet at the Museum, Carrier s Road, TN17 3JX original wooden cross from a 1915 war grave; and an exhibition of the church, parish, school and area. A guided walk around historic Cranbrook led by the Cranbrook Local History Society St. James’ Church, St. James’ Road, TN2 3RL Kent & Sussex Courier, 80-84 Calverley Road, TN1 2UN Information correct at time of going to press. E&OE. Built in 1860-62 with Ewen Christian, a President of the RIBA, as its architect. Display of the history of A 1-hour talk and tour of the newspaper offices. Limited to 25 people – booking essential from 1st September on 01892 534599. ✁ ✁ ✁ the Church and mini-biographies of WW1 men in the parish. The Opera House (Wetherspoons), 88 Mt. Pleasant Road, TN1 1RT HERITAGE OPEN DAYS St. John’s Church, Amherst Road, TN4 9LG A talk and behind-the scenes tour of this Grade II-listed Edwardian theatre, now a public house. Just three Built in 1858, it has an Award-winning modern extension of hall, meeting rooms and other facilities. in and around tours limited to 25 people per tour. Essential to book at [email protected] Display about the history of the church and its neighbourhood. Notable stained glass windows. WHY NOT JOIN THE Pantiles Blue Badge-Guided Walk TUNBRIDGE WELLS ROYAL TUNBRIDGE WELLS CIVIC SOCIETY? St. John’s Church, Groombridge Hill, Groombridge TN3 9QE Meet at the Tourist Information Centre in the Corn Exchange in the Pantiles TN2 5TE Listed Grade I 17th century church with a wealth of stained glass. Join the Blue-Badge guide on a walk around the Pantiles and Mount Sion. Thursday 8th – Sunday 11th September 2016 King Charles the Martyr London Rd, TN1 1YX Rusthall Common Walk, Meet at St. Paul’s Church, Rusthall (This insert has been paid for by RTWCS, as a contribution to the HOD project fund.) The original church of Tunbridge Wells, dating from 1679, with very fine plaster ceilings and listed Grade I. A guided walk led by Steve Budden, the Commons Warden, looking at the history and flora and fauna of www.tunbridgewellsheritageopendays.org this Common. The benefits of membership are many: St. Mark’s Church, Broadwater Down, TN2 5LU Built in 1864-66 by the Earl of Abergavenny, to provide a church for himself and Southborough Society Walk, ■ knowing, above all, that you are helping to protect the ‘quality of life’ of you and your the new estates he was building. Meet outside St Thomas’s Church, Pennington Road, Southborough, Kent, TN4 0SH A walk from St. Thomas’s across the Common to St. Peter’s Church, telling the story of nineteenth family in Tunbridge Wells, by joining the collective voice of the inhabitants of our town; St. Martin’s Church, Ashurst Road, Ashurst TN3 9TE century Southborough. Originally a 10th century monk’s house, the Church was restored in the 13th and 19thcenturies. ■ and that you are joining what is for Tunbridge Wells: Trinity Arts Theatre, Church Road, TN1 1JP St. Mary’s Church, Speldhurst Hill, Speldhurst TN3 0PA A Grade II* – listed former church designed by Decimus Burton, now a theatre and arts centre. ■ a forum for discussion and debate of local issues; The medieval church was rebuilt in 19th century following a fire and has famous stained glass windows Talk and guided tour by Dr. Philip Whitbourn OBE. by William Morris and Edward Burne Jones. A guided talk at 14.00 & 15.30 both days. ■ a network for the exchange of information, ideas and views; Tunbridge Ware Walk St. Paul’s Church, Langton Road, Rusthall TN4 8PB Meet outside The Tunbridge Wells Museum, Civic Way, TN1 1RS ■ a channel for the representation of your views and interests; Early Victorian church by Henry Isaac Stevens on the edge of Rusthall Common. A 1-hour, 1-mile guided walk and talk by David Wakefield, illustrating the story of Tunbridge Ware. Tunbridge Wells Library, Civic Way, Mount Pleasant Road, TN1 1NS St. Thomas à Becket Church, Capel, Church Lane, Capel, Tonbridge, TN12 6SX + with the opportunity for you to attend 12 meetings/events a year; Past and Present Tunbridge Wells: A drop-in day exhibition for everyone to experience the pictures on A Grade I-listed Norman church from well before the 13th century, with rare and Facebook dedicated to memories of Tunbridge Wells;and see old film, pictures, photos and books about + receive a quarterly 24 pp. full colour Newsletter, updating you on latest events; notable 13th century wall paintings. Tunbridge Wells. Why not bring your own pictures of bygone Tunbridge Wells to share and compare? + and receive a 25% discount on all our many Local History publications. St. Thomas’s Church, Pennington Road, Southborough TN4 0SH Woodbury Park Cemetery Tour, Woodbury Park Road, TN4 9NH A Grade II-listed church dating from 1860, with a connection with Edith Cavell and a display of church Meet at cemetery gate (end of cul-de-sac off Woodbury Park). Annual Subscription: Individual £15; Family (2+ people) £22.50 and community archives. A guided walk in the closed, but now restored, Victorian cemetery. Over 40tours places andAND to walks visit, ALL toor ARE make,guided FREE Heritage Day Leaflet FINAL.indd 1-4 12/08/2016 07:12 CHOOSE YOUR PLACE / EVENT(S), DAY AND TIME PLACES / EVENTS TO VISIT See table for days and times of opening Dates in September Thurs 8th Fri 9th Sat 10th Sun 11th Dates in September Thurs 8th Fri 9th Sat 10th Sun 11th Adult Education Centre, Monson Road, TN1 1JN The Skinners’ School, St. John’s Road, TN4 9PG A Grade II-listed building by Henry Hare, built in 1902 with notable stained glass by Dudley Forsyth Skinners’ is Tunbridge Wells’ Grammar School for boys. It was established in 1887 after a 17-year tussle St. John’s, Amherst Road 10.00-16.00 10.00-16.00 PLACES / EVENTS TO VISIT and many original fixtures and fittings still intact. between Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge as to who was to get this new school. View the Grand Hall, Byng Adult Education Centre 10.00-16.00 St. John’s, Groombridge 10.00-15.00 Archaeological Dig in Southborough: Hall, the WWI War Memorial and other school buildings and events. Honnington Cottages, Vauxhall Lane, Southborough, TN4 0XD Somerhill, Tudeley Road, Tonbridge TN11 0NJ Archaeological Dig, 10.30-12.30 10.30-12.30 King Charles the Martyr 10.00-15.00 10.00-15.00 10.00-15.00 13.00-15.00 A guided tour of the Southborough Archaeology Society Project, which offers an opportunity to see the Southborough – Drop-in between: 14.00-16.00 14.00-16.00 The Grade I-listed Jacobean mansion is now a school campus. Its historic parkland was painted by J. M. W. St. Mark’s, Broadwater Down 10.00-16.00 10.00-16.00 10.00-16.00 10.00-11.30 recently discovered archaeology of the Southborough Valley and to inspect and handle artefacts from the summer’s excavation, as well as to observe the ongoing fieldwork. No need to book, drop in sessions are Turner. While its address is Tonbridge, it is just within the boundary of the borough of Tunbridge Wells. Cranbrook Museum 14.00-16.30 from 10:30-12:30 and again from 14.00-16.00. For more information, call 0759 979 5451. St. Martin’s, Ashurst 10.00-16.00 Spa Valley Railway Station, West Station, Nevill Terrace, TN2 5QY Cranbrook Union Mill 14.30-17.00 14.30-17.00 St. Mary’s, Speldhurst 11.00-17.00 12.00-17.00 Bell-ringing at St.
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