{"id":34241,"date":"2025-09-11T15:05:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34241"},"modified":"2025-09-11T15:05:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:05:47","slug":"heritage-open-days-and-other-events-in-the-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34241","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Open Days and other events in the next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025091001.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Heritage Open Days \u2013 13\u201314 September<\/strong> This year\u2019s theme is &#8216;Exploring Abingdon\u2019s Architectural History&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roysse Room Exhibition:<\/strong> Abingdon\u2019s Historic Buildings \u2013 Lost, Recorded and Understood \u2013 Sat &amp; Sun, 10 am\u20134 pm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unit 25, Bury Street<\/strong>: Evolving Abingdon (redevelopment of the 1960s\u201370s) and Reaching for the Stars (fusion energy at Culham) \u2013 Fri\u2013Mon, 10 am\u20134 pm. Abingdon Artists will be displaying their painted building in Unit 25 over Saturday and Sunday.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025091006.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Abbey Buildings:<\/strong> Roman re-enactments and rural crafts on Saturday to complement the exhibition in the County Hall Museum<\/p>\n<p><strong>Open Properties:<\/strong> Over a dozen buildings open, including the Old Gaol foyer, Sophos Building, and Christchurch barn conversion.\u00a0St Helen\u2019s Church will have an organ try-out, tower climbs, and quizzes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025091005.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nTrinity Abingdon marks its 150th anniversary with an exhibition on Saturday. On Sunday there will be a guided tour at 2 pm followed by an illustrated talk at 2.30 pm about the church&#8217;s history and architecture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Walks &amp; Trails:<\/strong> Guided walks on Sunday, plus self-guided and treasure trails.<\/p>\n<p>Full programme at <a href=\"https:\/\/abingdonheritage.org.uk\/festivalprogramme\">abingdonheritage.org.uk<\/a>. The Heritage stall will be on the Market Place for more information and to sign up for walks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025091004.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe final St Michael\u2019s Church Cream Tea of the year: Saturday 13 September, 2.30\u20134.30 pm \u2013 \u00a35 including tea or coffee and cake.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025091002.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nConcert at St Michael\u2019s Church: Sunday 14 September, 3 pm \u2013 pianist and conductor Huw Rhys James performs Haydn, Mozart, Liszt and Debussy. Tickets \u00a312 (under-16s free).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025091003.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMake Music Abingdon is at the Loose Cannon Brewery: Thursday next week \u2013 includes Ben Heaneyn, previously featured at HealthFest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heritage Open Days \u2013 13\u201314 September This year\u2019s theme is &#8216;Exploring Abingdon\u2019s Architectural History&#8217;. Roysse Room Exhibition: Abingdon\u2019s Historic Buildings \u2013 Lost, Recorded and Understood \u2013 Sat &amp; Sun, 10 am\u20134 pm. Unit 25, Bury Street: Evolving Abingdon (redevelopment of the 1960s\u201370s) and Reaching for the Stars (fusion energy at Culham) \u2013 Fri\u2013Mon, 10 am\u20134 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}