Free admission on Sundays & Bank Holiday Mondays between 2:30 and 4:30pm
from Easter 2013.
New Look to Abbey ‘Barn’ Museum in 2013
Leaflet-Guides in English, French, German, Japanese, Polish & Spanish are
available.
An educational leaflet challenges children to find answers to questions about exhibits in the
museum.
The ground floor is devoted to a professional exhibition which tells the story of the
Kenilworth Augustinian Abbey
by descriptive plaques and surviving stonework. The Millennium Exhibition on the ground floor was opened just after Easter 2001. It was part of the Abbey Interpretation Project costing £98980.
The first floor, which was installed in 1994 for £7265, portrays Kenilworth history by relics brought in by residents Publications are for sale.
The Museum is staffed by a rota of volunteers.
More volunteers are always welcome to contact the chairman of KHAS,
or else contact Michael Formstone by e-mail :- m.formstone@ntlworld.com
Access on foot from the free Abbey Fields Car Park, or from the bus service
11 stops in Bridge Street or from the Unibus service stops in Abbey Hill.
Both services run on a Sunday afternoon between Coventry & Leamington Spa and stop in Abbey End by the Kenilworth Clock Tower
where there is a pay & display car park ( Sunday charges free all day ). A short walk uphill along Abbey End to the
War Memorial leads to the steep downhill path in Abbey Fields to the Swimming
Baths.
From Kenilworth Castle
down by a track to a gap near the Ford, after crossing the busy road,
paths in Abbey Fields beside the Lake lead to the Swimming Baths.
Outside the baths building there is café on the corner, public toilets including a RADAR
disability facility and disabled parking.
November 2010
Graham Gould, Henry Denny and Richard Morris have started recording the interior of the important
late-Victorian town house - Wilton House, Southbank Road.
At present the offices of Kenilworth Town Council & Jeremy Wright MP.
October 2010
KWN October 19th :-
A piece of Kenilworth history could soon be forgotten unless it’s marked "Betsy's Grave"
A new granite stone suitably inscribed will be placed beside the stone
thanks to the generosity of Henry Ison, Undertaker - December 2010
| October 2010
commemorative plaque found & returned to the care of the Town Council Later remounted on the building at the corner of Station Road & The Square |
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Garden of Our Lady of Doncaster