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At a Glance Thursday 7 – Sunday 10 September 2017 = Closed = Open (See Listings for Times) Thurs 7 Fri 8 Sat 9 Sun 10 Heritage 1 No 9 Heritage Open Days 2017 Thursday 7 – Sunday 10 Lansdown Road Julian Road September 2017 Royal London Road – M4 Crescent The Circus 7 1 No. 4 Circus 6 2 Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution 1 The Paragon Bathwick Street 5 3 St John’s Foundation Br Wa eet oad Str re George Str P St lcot 4 Bath Record Office Milsom Str Gay Str N P+R eet 20 et eet 5 Cleveland Pools Charlotte 21 Street eet long stay 6 St Swithin’s Church P P eet Great Pulteney Str 7 Nexus Methodist Church at Walcot 2 New Bond Street 8 Southcot Burial Ground Queen Square 9 Fairfield House Union Str 4 Guildhall James Str 10 The Magdalen Chapel eet eet West P 11 St Mark’s Centre P 12 First Church of Christ, Scientist Bath Riverside 3 Stall Str Coach Park Abbey 13 Widcombe Baptist Church (drop off/pick up only) P+R W eet Manvers Str 14 Eyre Chantry Chapel Bath Spa Pulteney Road eet 15 Perrymead Cemetery Chapel P S P+R Southgate P 16 St Thomas à Becket Church 17 Abbey Cemetery 18 Prior Park Landscape Garden Bus i Station Bath Spa railway station 19 Jewish Burial Ground P Lower Bristol Road 20 Pixash Lane Archaeology Store 21 Saltford Brass Mill 13 16 11 12 22 Midsomer Norton Station 10 8 22 14 15 17 18 19 At a glance Thursday 7 – Sunday 10 September 2017 = closed = open (see listings for times) Thurs 7 Fri 8 Sat 9 Sun 10 Heritage 1 No. 4 Circus 2 Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution 3 St John’s Foundation 4 Bath Record Office 5 Cleveland Pools 6 St Swithin’s Church 7 Nexus Methodist Church at Walcot 8 Southcot Burial Ground 9 Fairfield House 10 The Magdalen Chapel 11 St Mark’s Centre 7-10 September 2017 12 First Church of Christ, Scientist Welcome to Heritage Open Days in Bath and North East Somerset 13 Widcombe Baptist Church www.bathnes.gov.uk/heritageevents 14 Eyre Chantry Chapel 15 Perrymead Cemetery Chapel 16 St Thomas à Becket Church 17 Abbey Cemetery Chapel 18 Prior Park Landscape Garden 19 Jewish Burial Ground 20 Pixash Lane Archaeology Store 21 Saltford Brass Mill 22 Midsomer Norton Station This leaflet about Heritage Open Days 2017 can be made available in a range of community languages, large print, Braille, on disk, electronic and accessible formats. Tel. 01225 477757 Prepared by Bath & North East Somerset Council Heritage Services. Within Bath 1 No. 4 Circus 6 St Swithin’s Church 11 St Mark’s Centre 16 St Thomas à Becket Church Bath, BA1 2EW Paragon, Bath, BA1 5LY St Mark’s Road, Bath, BA2 4PA Church Street, Widcombe, Bath, BA2 6AZ 01225 477773 01225 789168 www.widcombeassociation.org.uk/events www.widcombeassociation.org.uk/events www.romanbaths.co.uk www.stswithinswalcot.org.uk www.facebook.com/Widcombe www.facebook.com/Widcombe www.facebook.com/TheRomanBaths Thursday 7 and Friday 8 September Sunday 10 September from 2pm to 5pm Sunday 10 September from 2pm to 5pm @RomanBathsBath from 11am to 3pm Open as part of the Widcombe Chapel Trail Open as part of the Widcombe Chapel Trail Friday 8 September from 10am to 12 noon Saturday 9 September This listed former church dates from 1832. Believed to be Bath’s oldest parish church. and from 1pm to 3pm from 11.30am to 3pm It closed in 1974 and is now a community The current church, dating from the 1490s, See inside this beautiful house and restored Sunday 10 September from 2pm to 4pm centre. stands on the site of an earlier Saxon church. Georgian garden – the first of its kind in Britain. St Swithin’s is the only original Classical Wheelchair access; accessible toilet Information leaflets about both the house and 17 Georgian parish church remaining in Bath. Abbey Cemetery garden available. Many recently restored commemorative 12 First Church of Christ, Scientist Ralph Allen Drive, Bath, BA2 5BB Partial wheelchair access to house only plaques adorn the internal walls. There is a St Mark’s Road, Bath, BA2 4PA www.bathabbey.org/history/abbey-cemetery café on site. www.widcombeassociation.org.uk/events www.widcombeassociation.org.uk/events 2 Bath Royal Literary and Wheelchair access; accessible toilet www.facebook.com/Widcombe www.facebook.com/Widcombe Scientific Institution Sunday 10 September from 2pm to 5pm Sunday 10 September from 2pm to 5pm 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, BA1 2HN 7 Nexus Methodist Church Open as part of the Widcombe Chapel Trail Open as part of the Widcombe Chapel Trail 01225 312084 at Walcot The cemetery opened in 1844. The Grade II www.brlsi.org Originally the Temperance Hall, this building Nelson Place East, London Street, Bath, has been a place of worship since 1847. Listed chapel was designed by Bath’s City Saturday 9 September from 10am to 4pm BA1 5DA Architect, George Manners. Explore this late Georgian building and see a 01225 461509 13 Widcombe Baptist Church dinosaur cast, Casali ceiling paintings, Riches www.nexusbath.org.uk 18 Prior Park Landscape Garden Pulteney Road, Bath, BA2 4JR of the Earth and geological exhibitions. A www.facebook.com/nexusbath www.widcombebaptistchurch.org Ralph Allen Drive, Bath, BA2 5AH poetry group will be taking place on the day. @nexusbath www.widcombeassociation.org.uk/events 01225 833977 Wheelchair access; parking area close to site; Saturday 9 September from 10am to 5pm www.facebook.com/Widcombe www.nationaltrust.org.uk/priorpark accessible toilets www.facebook.com/nationaltrustbath Sunday 10 September from 11.30am to 5pm Sunday 10 September from 2pm to 5pm @NTPriorPark 3 St John’s Foundation Visit Bath’s oldest Methodist Church, opened Open as part of the Widcombe Chapel Trail in 1816. The organ, built in 1771, was Saturday 9 September from 10am to Built in 1820, this has been a Baptist church 4-5 Chapel Court, Bath, BA1 1SQ originally installed in Bath’s Assembly Rooms. 5.30pm (last entry 4.30pm) since 1849. 01225 486400 Enjoy this beautiful and intimate 18th century www.stjohnsbath.org.uk Wheelchair access; parking close to site 14 landscape garden free of charge on this day. www.facebook.com/StJohnsBath (1 hour limit on-street); accessible toilet Eyre Chantry Chapel No car parking at site or nearby – mobility @StJohns1174 Perrymead Cemetery, Popes Walk, Bath, 8 Southcot Burial Ground parking can be booked in advance; partial Friday 8 September from 10am to 4pm BA2 5AZ Bottom of Lyncombe Hill, Widcombe, www.widcombeassociation.org.uk/events wheelchair access; accessible toilet Discover St John’s Foundation and its Bath, BA2 4PG www.facebook.com/Widcombe 19 843-year history through a unique archive 01225 333895 Bath Jewish Burial Ground Sunday 10 September from 2pm to 5pm exhibition, workshop and historical talk. www.bath-preservation-trust.org.uk Greendown Place (off Bradford Road), Full wheelchair access; accessible toilets; www.facebook.com/bathprestrust Open as part of the Widcombe Chapel Trail Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5DD Guide dogs welcome @BathPresTrust An outstanding example of mid-19th century 07761 586728 www.instagram.com/bptrust Gothic Catholic Revival architecture by Charles www.facebook.com/bathjewishburialground 4 Bath Record Office Sunday 10 September Hansom. Visitors have the opportunity to view Sunday 10 September from 11am to 4pm the elaborate interior. Guildhall, High Street, Bath, BA1 5AW from 10.30am to 3pm Visit this beautiful and tranquil burial ground, Bookings to be made in advance on Southcot Burial Ground Open Day 15 Perrymead Cemetery Chapel the resting place of Bath’s Jewish community 01225 477421 during the 18th and 19th centuries. www.batharchives.co.uk Bath Preservation Trust owns and manages Perrymead Cemetery, Popes Walk, Bath, No wheelchair access due to uneven ground; @bathnesBRO this hidden oasis in the centre of Bath, a BA2 5AZ haven for wildlife as well as history. Dr. David parking area close to site Friday 8 September – pre-bookable tours www.widcombeassociation.org.uk/events Goode, author and expert in urban ecology, www.facebook.com/Widcombe at 10.30am and 11.30am will give talks at 11.30am and 1.30pm. Sunday 10 September from 2pm to 5pm History at Your Feet – book a tour to discover Children must be accompanied 900 years of archives in the Guildhall Open as part of the Widcombe Chapel Trail basement. Visit the new Local Studies 9 Fairfield House The original mortuary chapel for this Roman strongroom. Via Partis Way, 2 Kelston Road, Bath, BA1 3QJ Catholic cemetery. A drop-in day will be held on Monday 01225 464165 11 September from 9am-4.30pm. [email protected] Tour involves a number of steps and www.houseofhismajesty.com uneven floors www.facebook.com/ Outside Bath homeofHIMfairfieldhouse 5 Cleveland Pools @Fairfieldhouse_ Hampton Row, Bath BA2 6QS Saturday 9 September from 11am to 5pm 20 Pixash Lane Archaeology Store 22 Midsomer Norton Station – 01225 428697 An opportunity to see inside the home of Haile Pixash Lane, Keynsham BS31 1TP Somerset & Dorset Railway [email protected] Selassie 1 and his family from 1936 to 1941. (next to recycling depot) Heritage Trust www.clevelandpools.org.uk 01225 477779 The Italianate Victorian villa has original Midsomer Norton Railway Station, www.facebook.com/ClevelandPools www.romanbaths.co.uk features and an Arts and Crafts extension. Silver Street, Midsomer Norton, BA3 2EY @clevelandpools www.facebook.com/TheRomanBaths Partial wheelchair access; parking area close www.sdjr.co.uk Friday 8, Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 @RomanBathsBath to site; accessible toilet www.facebook.com/ September from 2pm to 5pm Thursday 7 September from 11am to 3pm somersetanddorsetrailway Find out more about the recently approved 10 Explore archaeological finds from Keynsham, The Magdalen Chapel Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 September plans for the restoration of this Grade II* including objects from the Roman and Holloway, Bath, BA2 4PX from 10am to 4pm listed pool – the oldest open air public pool 07817 796991 Medieval periods.
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