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HOD-2016-Leaflet-Lowres2.Pdf HERITAGE OPEN DAYS 13 St. James Church 19 Yeomanry House / Family History 27 Visit St Peter’s Church, Caversham Pugin’s very first church design, built in the Norman style Research Centre Guided tours of a historic 12th Century parish church (1840), it was among the first Catholic churches to be Looking for your history of 1538 or 1939, from Abingdon overlooking beautiful Caversham Court Gardens. built in England after the Reformation and is sited over to Redruth? A worldwide library containing nearly 6000 Guided tours will start at 3pm and 4pm on both days. the ruins of Reading Abbey. Find out more about a items including deeds, maps, parish registers and wills, The Warren, Caversham, Reading RG4 7AQ modern Catholic Church, the history of St James and websites and millions of transcribed records. Enjoy tea and Saturday, Sunday 10:30 - 17:00, Tours 15:00 & 16:00 Reading’s Hidden Abbey Project. Guided tours all day. cake while chatting to a genealogist to help you discover For short talks see times shown. the history of your family. 28 Christ Church Reading Forbury Road, Reading RG1 3FD 131 Castle Hill, Reading RG1 7TJ Magnificent Victorian Gothic church, designed by Friday Saturday 11:00 - 16:00, Talks 15:00 Thursday, Saturday 10:00 - 16:00 Sunday 11:00 - 16:00 Henry Woodyer and consecrated in 1862. The interior Sunday 12:30 - 1600 Talk 15:00 berksfhs.org.uk of the church is striking in its sense of scale and is jameswilliam-reading.org.uk 20 largely unchanged since it was completed. Lovely Forbury Band Concert architecture and stained glass. Refreshments available 14 St. Marys Church The Watership Brass Band will entertain you from the and the church’s garden will also be open. Late-18th century chapel with interesting interior, history beautiful Victorian Bandstand with a host of classic tunes. Christchurch Road, Reading RG2 7AR and exhibition of collection of 18th century pottery, The Forbury Gardens, Reading RG1 3BB Saturday, Sunday – open from 11:00 glassware, leather and other items. There will also be an Sunday 15:00 - 16:30 exhibition highlighting the suffering church down the 29 St Laurence Church ages, and across the world. 21 Jelly Tots at The Chalkboard Café Built outside the Abbey Gate for the people of Reading, 14 Castle Street, Reading RG1 7RD Join jelly tots – a pre school art club, making pretend biscuits inspired by Huntley and Palmers in one of past congregants include Jane Austen and Queen Thursday, Friday 10:00 - 14:00 Saturday 09:30 - 17:00 Reading’s historic cafes. Built in In 1891 as a ‘Refreshment Elizabeth, who attended so often that she was allotted stmaryscastlestreet.org.uk Room’ for the people of Reading today, The Chalkboard a regular seat. This 12th century church has many Café still shows off its heritage. ancient features. The church, which is now solely committed to young people, has been uniquely and Palmer Park, The Lodge, Reading RG6 1LF The Rising Sun Arts Centre creatively re-ordered to include glass rooms and a A Grade II listed building originally designed and built by Thursday 09:30 - 16:30; mezzanine floor. Family craft event 10:30am - 11:30am architect Alfred Waterhouse for his wife as a Temperance Friar Street, Reading RG1 1DA House. Some 138 years later it is now used as a vibrant Friday, Saturday, Sunday 09:30 - 16:30 Saturday 10:00 - 15:00 and unique art centre. Delve into the Rising Sun’s history jelly.org.uk stlreading.org through an art exhibition of work created for and about Reading Abbey Quarter Tours the centre, special poetry readings and a guide to the 22 building’s intriguing past in its 25th birthday year. Learn more about the history of the Abbey Quarter, 30 The Church of the Sacred Heart Cafe will be open with homemade refreshments. the former precinct of Reading Abbey and a nationally important historic site. Visitors will be able to enter the The Church is a Victorian Grade II listed building. 26-30 Silver Street, Reading RG1 2ST Abbey Ruins (currently closed for conservation work) Stained windows and Corinthian columns are of particular significance. The church is at the heart of the Polish Sunday 11:00 - 16:00 and find out more about the Council’s Reading Abbey Revealed project, which is supported by the Heritage community, and welcomes other communities. There risingsunartscentre.org Lottery Fund. will be displays on the history of the Polish resettlement Reading Museum, Blagrave Street, RG1 1QH in the UK after the war. Refreshments with home-made 16 Malmaison Hotel – Reading cakes and a supervised area with toys for children. Friday, Saturday Tours: 10:30, 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 12:30, Reputed to be the oldest railway hotel in the world, it Watlington Street, Reading RG1 4EH was designed by Brunel in 1844. During WWII it was used 13:00, 13:30 & 14:00 Saturday 15:00 - 18:00 Sunday 13:00 - 17:00 by the Ministry of Supply and was visited by Churchill. Booking essential: 01189 373 400 Following its closure as a hotel in 1972 and alternative [email protected] uses over subsequent years, Malmaison refurbished it 31 Barbados Heritage Open Day HERITAGE AFTERNOON TEA readingmuseum.org.uk in keeping with the railway theme and reopened it as a Get involved with the Barbados independence 50th hotel in 2007. ThereVisit Malmaison will be a Reading special on exhibition the Saturday showing of 23 St. Giles Church in Reading anniversary celebrations. Meet the team behind the information about the history of the hotel and a selection Getting Around Heritage Open Days and enjoy a buffet style Originally built in the twelfth century, during the English Reading Barbados Heritage project and enjoy a slice of photographs. Freeafternoon entry. Droptea in the in. brasserie at a Civil War, St. Giles tower was garrisoned for the King of home-made sweet bread! Guy Grannum from the Travelling by bus? 18-20 Station Road,special Reading Heritage RG1 offer 1JX price of £10pp. and the upper part was destroyed (1643). The fabric National Archives at Kew will be on hand to help you Check out the route number for each event Saturday 10 September,Enjoy a lazy afternoon 12 noon with - 5pm tea and scones with was restored at the end of hostilities. discover more about Barbadian heritage. clotted cream and sandwiches before treating Church Street, Reading RG1 2SB Reading Museum, Blagrave Street, Reading RG1 1QH reading-buses.co.uk yourself to some delicious cakes. Saturday 10:00 - 17:00 Sunday 12:00 - 14:00 Saturday 11:00 – 15:00 Many of the venues are within Reading Town Centre and Pre-booking is necessary: 0844 693 0660 Heritage AfternoonSaturday 12:00 - 17:00Tea Offer sgilesreading.org.uk are in easy walking/cycling distance of each other. Saturday 10 September, 12 noon - 5pm 32 Life in Brock Keep – Open Hand The Church of the Most Holy Trinity Open Space readybike.co.uk Happy Exploring! Visit Malmaison Reading on the Saturday of The church contains many unusual and beautiful Grade II listed Brock Keep, built 1877 as the armoury Heritage Open Days and enjoy a buffet style furnishings including the famous Pugin Screen and an and gatehouse of Brock Barracks, home of the Royal afternoon tea in the Chez Mal brasserie at a altar set by Martin Travers from Nashdom Abbey. Berkshire Regiment. In the 1980s the Keep found a new Daily tours of the crypt/catacombes (not Sunday). Facebook.com/readingheritageopendays SPECIAL HERITAGE OFFER PRICE OF £12PP use: providing artist’s studios. Learn more about its Oxford Road Reading, opp. Russell Street @LivingRdgEvents Pre-booking is necessary: 0844 693 0660 100 years of military history, time as a shelter, and Thursday, Friday 12:00 - 15:00 35 years of artists, some of whom have reached livingreading.co.uk Saturday 11:00 - 15:00 Sunday 11:30 - 12:30 international fame. Tours include heritage and art 17 Rowberry Morris & Co exhibition on ground floor(accessible), plus artists heritageopendays.org.uk SuperHome Open Day – studios on upper floors (unfortunately there is no lift). 16th century house used as an Inn (Castle Inn), a doctor’s 25 Open Hand Open Space, residence and surgery. The building has been used as a Eastern Avenue solicitor’s practice since 1971. Original items retained – Find out what Jonathan Gregory has done to his 571 Oxford Road, Reading RG30 1HL diamond chimneys, coach and horse mounting block, refurbished Victorian 1873 semi-detached SuperHome – Friday, Saturday, Sunday 11:00 – 17:00 shoe carving on the beam timbers. including insulation, solar panels, low energy appliances ohos.org.uk and water saving devices. Full details including directions 17 Castle Street, Reading RG1 7SB will be provided when you register your interest. 33 Berkshire Medical Heritage Museum Saturday 09:15 - 16:30 Eastern Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 5RY rowberrymorris.co.uk Look round the small but comprehensive museum Saturday Tours 11:00, 12:00, 14:00 & 15:00 devoted to the history of health care over the last Booking essential: www.superhomes.org.uk/134 250 years, including much about the Royal Berkshire Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information at the time of going to 18 Caversham Court Gardens Hospital itself. A special display about medical care in print. For full access information it is recommended that you contact venues before visiting. A special exhibition “Capability Brown in Berkshire”, 26 Trooper Potts VC & Berkshire WWI, and the key part played by the many War to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of the father Yeomanry Memorials Hospitals in Reading.
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