Lancaster
Properties and events in Lancaster
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15 Castle Hill: the evolution of a building
Visit 15 Castle Hill and the Cottage Museum, the smallest and most immersive museum in the North West. Learn about this fascinating building and how it has changed over the centuries.
Artistic and Functional
In The Storey building a stained glass window provides light, enhances the architecture and has an educational function. Behind the Georgian wall in the gardens is a folly, acknowledging the skills of people who created fruit tree varieties.
Christ Church, Lancaster
Christ Church is a beautiful Grade II listed building, with stunning views across the Bay and beautiful stained glass windows. Having been a Chapel for the Lancaster Workhouse, it remains a place for worship loved by many in and beyond the parish.
Cockersand Abbey Chapter House
Chapter House of Premonstratensian Abbey dissolved in 1539. Abbey building stone used for building of Thurnham Hall. Became the mausoleum of landowners - Dalton's. Exhibition of artifacts and photographs from last excavations (1927).
Judges' Lodgings 400th Birthday Party
Bring friends and family for a very special birthday party to celebrate 400 years of Lancaster's oldest Town House as we mark Heritage Open Days.
Lancaster Grand Theatre
Heritage Open Day 2025 at Lancaster Grand Theatre. Join us for a free behind-the-scenes experience at Lancaster Grand Theatre as part of the national Heritage Open Days festival!
Lancaster Priory
The Mother Church of the City of Lancaster, Lancaster Priory is a Grade I listed building, located on a site which has seen Christian worship since Saxon times. It is of huge historical and archaeological importance.
Lancaster Quaker Meeting House
Quakers first worshipped in Lancaster in 1652 at first in each others homes until a Meeting House was built in 1677. The building you will visit was rebuilt in 1708 it is one of the oldest in Lancaster and is surrounded by a burial ground.
Morecambe Winter Gardens - Designing and Building The Albert Hall of the North
Join Professor Vanessa Toulmin for this free talk where she will discuss the architects and designers involved in the building of the Morecambe Winter Gardens.
Sts Thomas & Elizabeth RC Church
Catholic Church built on private estate in 1848. Replaced original of 1818. Architect Charles Hansom. Stained glass by William Wailes. Chancel Arch painting by Henry Doyle (uncle of Arthur Conan Doyle.)
Treasures and Talks from the Lancaster Health and Medical Museum Collection
This will be a rare opportunity to see items from the Lancaster Health and Medical Museum Collection, which are not generally available to the public. There will also be a series of talks about local medical history.