Lewes History Group

This is a hidden historic town garden established in the 1930s by the Martin sisters and developed since the 1980s by the late Paul Millmore. It is accessed via steps to a narrow cobbled passageway which opens out to reveal a truly secret garden. ½ acre in size, the garden is laid out formally with brick paviour paths, perennial borders, pond, mature trees and topiary. A magical space in the midst of bustling urban life.

See the entry in the National Garden Scheme website for more details, photos, and how to get to the garden.

Admission £4.00, children free. Home-made teas.

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Saturday 24th July 2017 will be the official launch of the new community medieval kitchen garden at Lewes Priory Park.

Planned workshops and activities for the day are:

• Wattle making workshops with Dominic Parrette of Sussex Willow
• Medieval food and cookery workshop with Kate Hickmott and Helen Chiasson
• Making compostable garden pots out of newspaper with Kate Hickmott and Helen Chiasson
• Havesting herbs, making ointments and infused oils with Julia Behrens – Medical Herbalist
• Using plants for dyeing textiles with Martin Pett
• Community gardening talk by Sally Stratton from the garden at Horace Walpole’s House, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham
• Others to be arranged.

The day runs from 10am until 4pm and everyone is welcome.

All events are free except the wattle making workshops which cost  £30 (£25 + £5 for materials). There are a limited number of places left:

10-12.30am. ‘Woven Willow cloche plant support. Students will learn how to make a strong but beautiful woven support that can support peonies or provide a frame for climbers such as clematis.

1.30-4pm. Woven Border Hurdles’. Students will learn the techniques and take home a finished woven willow border hurdle that can be used as path edging or decorative finish to a raised bed.

Please email tracyjaneanderson@me.com if you are interested in booking on one of these two wattle making sessions.

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Lewes Priory Trust’s 36th Emil Godfrey Memorial Lecture

Tim Tatton-Brown: The Building Stones of Lewes Priory

Tim Tatton-Brown is an archaeologist and architectural historian. He is consultant archaeologist to St George’s Chapel, Windsor and to Westminster School and Lambeth Palace. He was formerly consultant archaeologist to various cathedrals (Canterbury, Rochester, Chichester and Salisbury) and to Westminster Abbey.

Venue: Council Chamber, Lewes Town Hall (upstairs). Please use High Street entrance.

Admission free, all welcome.

The talk will be preceded by the Lewes Priory Trust AGM which is for members only and begins at 7pm.

Image at the Priory Trust website

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