Heritage Open Days 2022
THE KENILWORTH HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY will be hosting free guided walks of Kenilworth St. Mary’s Priory/Abbey ruins on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th September 2022 at 3pm in support…
Tantara Gatehouse Etching – Then & Now
Tantara Gatehouse Etching - Then & Now This then & now comparison shows an etching of the Tantara Gatehouse, one of the largest surviving fragments of the old Abbey of…
Heritage Open Days – Free guided walks of Kenilworth St. Mary’s Abbey ruins
KENILWORTH HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY will be hosting free guided walks of Kenilworth St. Mary's Priory / Abbey ruins on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th September 2021 at 3pm in…
St Nicholas’ Churchyard – Then & Now
St Nicholas’ Churchyard - Then & Now This undated image of St Nicholas’ Churchyard, was provided to KHAS from the collection of the late Reg Palmer. It shows the path…
Lockdown Photo: The Abbey Wall
This wonderful photo was snapped by Ian Fenwick, while on a recent lockdown walk. It shows the Abbey lapidarium wall, taken with the sun at the perfect angle for the…
Oxpen Meadow – Then & Now
Oxpen Meadow - Then & Now This image of the lake at Oxpen Meadow, Abbey Fields, was provided to KHAS from the collection of the late Reg Palmer. Formerly a…
Abbey ‘Barn’ Museum open for final weekend of Heritage Open Days
The Abbey 'Barn' Museum will be open again for Heritage Open Days on Saturday September 21 and Sunday September 22, from 2.30 to 4.30 pm. Heritage Open Days Kenilworth Weekly…
Barn Museum and Abbey Walk
A reminder that, as part of the commemorations of the 900th anniversary of the founding of the Abbey, members of KHAS will be hosting free guided walks of the Priory/Abbey…
Kenilworth Abbey 900
To mark the 900th year of the Foundation, there will be a Celebration in S. Nicholas’ Church of “The Masse” at 10 in the morning of the 28th of August, the feast…
Abbey Gatehouse Archway – Then & Now
Richard Morris cataloguing architectural mouldings in the Abbey Gatehouse passageway This image of an archway adjoining the Abbey Gatehouse was provided to KHAS from the collection of the late Reg…
Kenilworth Missal at Chichester Cathedral
13th Century marginalia form the Kenilworth Missal Members heading south in the summer may well be interested in this invitation from Chichester Cathedral to visit its library. The book of…
Rebuilding the Lapidarium Wall – Then & Now
These images of the restoration of the Abbey’s Lapidarium Wall were provided to KHAS from the collection of the late Reg Palmer. Rebuilding the Lapidarium Wall A lapidarium (from the…
Forthcoming Events
This year we are commemorating the 900th Anniversary of the initial founding of Kenilworth Priory as described in Canon John Strecche's 15thC Chronicle. The Signature of John Strecche. canon of…
The Chapter House Wall – Then & Now
This 1980s ‘then’ image of the surviving part of the Abbey’s chapter house wall was provided to KHAS from the collection of the late Reg Palmer. The ‘now’ image was…
Buck Print of the Abbey – Then & Now
Buck brothers' engraving of the Abbey of St. Mary, Kenilworth This Then & Now comparison attempts to match the view of St Mary’s Abbey, Kenilworth as captured an engraving by…
Work to begin on Kenilworth Abbey Gatehouse
The Abbey Gatehouse, sometimes known as the Tantara gatehouse, is one of the few surviving parts of the Abbey to still exist above ground and has the added distinction of…
Free Guided Walk of the Abbey – 10th September
Heritage Open Days 2016 Kenilworth Abbey 'Barn' Museum & Heritage Centre open both Saturday and Sunday 10th & 11th September 2.30 to 4.30 pm. On Saturday 10th there will also…
St Nicholas Church – Then & Now
Another shot attributed to J. Tarver from 1963, this time of St Nicholas Church taken from within the Abbey ruins, with matching a 2016 counterpart shot. It is not known…
Garden of Rest Stonework part 2 – Then & Now
This Then & Now set is part 2 to the earlier part 1 posting here: http://www.khas.co.uk/garden-rest-stonework-pt1-now/ According to The Abbey of St Mary guidebook by E. Carey-Hill (Odiboure Press, 1985)…
Garden of Rest Stonework part 1 – Then & Now
According to The Abbey of St Mary guidebook by E. Carey-Hill (Odibourne Press, 1985) “When the north cloister wall of 1890 was rebuilt in 1984, the carved stones were grouped…
St Nicholas Church in 1963 – Then & Now
This pair of pictures from 1963 and 2016 shows the Abbey’s Tantara Gatehouse with St Nicholas' Church in the background. The 1963 shot is labelled as having been taken by a…
Free Guided Walk of Kenilworth Abbey – 31st July
Free Guided Walk - 31st July 2016 A reminder: On 31st July 2016 KHAS members will be hosting a free guided walk of Kenilworth Abbey ruins in support of the…
‘Clappergate’ Stile – Then & Now
In the days when the Abbey Fields was a patchwork of farmers’ fields, the 'tumbledown' or 'clappergate' stile shown in this old postcard was situated in the Abbey’s Tantara Gatehouse…
Abbey Ruins 1960s – Then & Now
Today there is comparatively little to see above ground of the ruins of St Mary’s Abbey in the Abbey Fields. Following the Abbey Excavations in 1840, in the 1880s and…
The Abbey ‘Barn’ – Then & Now
This shot from 1963 shows the Abbey building known as the ‘barn’, clad in ivy and bathed in the July sun. There appears to be a rickety fence and style…
Heritage Open Days 2016
Kenilworth Abbey 'Barn' Museum & Heritage Centre open both Saturday and Sunday 10th & 11th September 2.30 to 4.30 pm. On Saturday 10th there will also be a free guided…
Appeal: Stolen Mediaeval Stone Heads from Kenilworth Priory
Appeal for Information These carved stone mediaeval heads were discovered during excavations at Kenilworth Priory. They were housed in the 'Barn' museum in the Abbey Fields, Kenilworth, from which they…