Monday Jan 15th 7.30pm Wardsend Cemetery: a relaunched and revitalised Friends Group brings you new stories and fresh insights on old ones. We also celebrate the unique setting of the site and look to its future as a resource for history, art, drama, nature study, recreation and more
Friday 20th April 2018 7:30pm Tickets: £7 advance / £8 on the door (includes a free glass of wine) Justin Hopper + Sharron Kraus With Chris Jones (Longbarrow Press) An evening of prose, poetry and music Justin Hopper and Sharron Kraus perform a new collaborative composition inspired by the landscape around Chanctonbury Ring. Justin Hopper […]
17th March 2018, 7.30pm Cost: Free People once protected their homes with magical inscriptions and objects, which they believed would keep witchcraft and evil spirits at bay. Some magical markings of this kind survive in Bishops’ House. This presentation explores the fear of harmful magic and demons in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, and relates this […]
Mon 20th November Dear Friends, You are warmly invited to the Friends of Bishops’ House 2017 Annual General Meeting, to be held at Bishops’ House on Monday 20th November at 7.30 pm. This will be an opportunity to reflect with trustees and volunteers on significant developments and successes of the year as well as share […]
Sunday December 17th 2pm – 4pm The Friends of Bishops’ House Singers return with this very popular Christmas event. Mince pies and mulled wine will be available! Places limited so please come early to be sure of a seat.
Sunday December 23rd 2pm – 4pm The Friends of Bishops’ House Singers return with this very popular Christmas event. Mince pies and mulled wine will be available! Places are likely to be very limited this year with a lot of public interest and limited space. You will have more chance of a seat if you […]
Tuesday 21st November Doors open 7:30 pm for 8 pm start Sharron Kraus & Nancy Wallace / Bell Lungs Nancy Wallace is a singer and musician hailing from London and Suffolk, and now based in Montreal, Canada. A guitarist and concertina player, her approach to both instruments, and her interpretations of both traditional material and her […]
New exhibition running every Saturday & Sunday from October 28th to December 10th 10am-4pmThrough interactive technology, visitors will have the opportunity to meet characters that could have lived in the house over the last 500 years. In partnership with the museum volunteers at the Bishops’ House, designer and PhD candidate Caroline Claisse has co-created an interactive […]
Sunday December 17 2017 7.30pm FrostlakeReturning to Bishops House is songstress/instrumentalist Frostlake, spectral psych-folk with haunting vocals. Guitar, laptop, Korg wavedrum and bassist Terry Todd give an atmospheric, otherworldly touch to new songs and ones from the album White Moon, Black Moon – listen here ” beautiful..atmospheric…ethereal… spooky” Achim Breiling Babyblaue Sieten Red ZooWere a Sheffield […]