26 Jun

Allsorts!

  • June 26, 2017

Enjoy the highlights of the summer with lots of cool craft activities.

Free admission, some small charges for individual craft activities.

Accompanied children only.

11am-2pm

 

 

26 Jun

Building All Saints

  • June 26, 2017

All Saints is over 1000 years old, but how did they build it all those years ago?  Discover how medieval masons measured, how stained glass was made, explore the church with our materials trail and find the secret medieval graffiti still visible today.

Free admission, some small charges for individual craft activities.

Accompanied children only.

11am-2pm

26 Jun

Saxon Art

  • June 26, 2017

 

Get creative and explore your artistic side at our Saxon Art day!

Free admission with some small charges for individual crafts.

Accompanied children only.

11am-2pm

26 Jun

History Detectives

  • June 26, 2017

Complete our trail and become a certified ASK History Detective!  Hunt the hidden skeleton, decode secret Saxon rune messages and much more…

FREE

Accompanied children only

10am-4pm

 

11 Apr

All Saints Free Guided Tour

  • April 11, 2017

Discover the hidden stories of All Saints Church on a FREE guided tour! 

All Saints has been at the heart of Kingston history for over 1000 years.  Learn about the Saxon coronations, the medieval church, Kingston life in the Victorian period and more.

Starts at 11am in the nave

Saturday 26th August

11 Apr

All Saints Free Guided Tour

  • April 11, 2017

Discover the hidden stories of All Saints Church on a FREE guided tour! 

All Saints has been at the heart of Kingston history for over 1000 years.  Learn about the Saxon coronations, the medieval church, Kingston life in the Victorian period and more.

Starts at 11am in the nave

Saturday 22nd July

11 Apr

All Saints Free Guided Tour

  • April 11, 2017

Discover the hidden stories of All Saints Church on a FREE guided tour! 

All Saints has been at the heart of Kingston history for over 1000 years.  Learn about the Saxon coronations, the medieval church, Kingston life in the Victorian period and more.

Starts at 11am in the nave

Saturday 27th May

10 Apr

All Saints Free Guided Tour

  • April 10, 2017

Discover the hidden stories of All Saints Church on a FREE guided tour! 

All Saints has been at the heart of Kingston history for over 1000 years.  Learn about the Saxon coronations, the medieval church, Kingston life in the Victorian period and more.

Starts at 11am in the nave

Saturday 22nd April

30 Mar

ASK Heritage Lecture – Blood, Bones and Books: Getting to know King Æthelstan

  • March 30, 2017

Speaker – Caroline Godden

An introduction to the renowned Anglo-Saxon King Æthelstan, the self-styled ‘King of All Britain’, who was crowned here in Kingston in 925AD. He is famed for his momentous victory at the Battle of Brunanburh, for his international political outlook, and for the eventual dominance of his rule in England, Wales and Scotland. But more than this, he was a ruler whose individual touches and personal tastes can be seen across different aspects of his kingship – from changes in his law-codes to his international search for holy relics and religious texts. This talk will explore the reign of Æthelstan and what it was that made him extraordinary.

Admission – FREE

Refreshments and bar open from 7pm.

30 Mar

ASK Heritage Lecture – Athelstan and the making of England

  • March 30, 2017

Speaker:  Tom Holland

Crowned in Kingston, Athelstan was the king who made England possible. It was an achievement won against the odds: the division of Britain into rival kingdoms, the conquest of much of the island by the Vikings, the need to foster an urban civilisation where there had been only brambles and weeds. Athelstan himself, though, was building on foundations laid by his immediate forebears, and this is their story too: Alfred, the only English king to be called ‘Great’; Edward, the great warrior whose conquests reached as far as the Humber; and Æthelflæd, the ‘Lady of the Mercians’. It is a remarkable story: a reminder that the making of England was never inevitable.

Admission – FREE

Refreshments and bar open from 7pm.