Previously Winchcombe Archive Collection
Events
Winter Selling Exhibition 2025
Contemporary Potters at Queen Anne House
27th November - 13th December
Thursday - Saturday 10.30am - 4.30pm
Special Evening Opening
Friday 28th November 5pm - 8pm
Don't miss this short but sweet selling show, featuring the work of ten local potters. The perfect chance to hunt for special handmade gifts.
As ever, aspects of the permanent collection will also be on display, so come along to soak up the special atmosphere of Queen Anne House and her treasures!
Winchcombe Christmas Festival
We are coinciding our next exhibition with the hugely popular Winchcombe Christmas Festival which takes place on 28th-29th November on the Friday evening and Saturday day time, a great opportunity to take in the exhibition and browse the market stalls for other local suppliers.
On the evening of Friday 28th join us for a glass of wine whilst you shop. No booking required - just turn up.
Previous Events
To bring alive the subject matter represented in our Trust collections, since 2014 the Long Room Gallery has been the venue for a variety of events and functions, and on one occasion the organizer of a related concert of English music held in the Methodist church next door. Our approach to objects owned by or associated with the Trust has always been very much hands on, providing visitors with the opportunity to handle historic and vintage materials more normally shown behind glass in conventional public Museums. We have also on occasions provided mini craft workshops, most notably a demonstration of textile dyeing held in our garden by the textile worker Jan Macmillan and a delightful slip trailing session led by Henry Sandon.
As to the handling sessions, these included Barley Roscoe (Barron & Larcher block printed fabric); Alan Powers (20th century design); John Randle (letterpress books) and Miriam Macgregor (wood engravings and their design process); and the odd Winchcombe antiques roadshow hosted by Henry Sandon, a leading BBC antiques expert and presenter of his day. Shows were also on occasions embellished by the provision of food of the period related to concurrent exhibitions – most notably our Cranks wholefood buffet held in tandem with a Ray Finch pottery show in 2016 which focused on his output of the 1970s and 1980s.
