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St Edfrith and the Lion Project
Students from Westfield School in Leominster have been learning about the legend of founding monk St Edfrith in a series of workshops by Hilary Norris, Musical …
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A Lion for Leominster
The origin legend of Leominster says that a monk from Northumberland, St Edfrith, visited pagan King Merewallhd here on his travels. A lion approached Edfrith, …
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Meeting the Neighbours
Barons Cross is a parish on the western edge of Leominster. It has a long and interesting history, and is reportedly where local barons met in the time of King …
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Choosing our logo: HCA Student Design Commission
We commissioned design students from Hereford College of Arts to come up with the logo for the Cultural Consortium. Our brief was our project title 'Leominster …
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Meet our members: Grange Court
Built in 1633, iconic Leominster building, Grange Court is the last surviving market house known to be built by John Abel, a local master carpenter. Today…
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Meet our members: Forbury Chapel
The 13th Century Forbury Chapel is one of the three oldest buildings in Leominster, Herefordshire, and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade II listed building…
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Meet our members: Leominster Museum
Leominster Museum tells the story of the market town of Leominster, its surrounding villages and their people from pre-Roman times to the present day. Run entirely…
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Consultation
As part of our project with Historic England, we’ve been all over town, visiting community groups to tell people about the High Street Heritage Action Zone…
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Meet our members: The Priory Church
The Priory Church is represented as a founding member of the Leominster Cultural Consortium by Director of Music, Hilary Norris. Using her significant professional…
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Meet our members: Leominster Festival
Every year the Leominster Festival provides an exciting, eclectic and varied programme of events across our Herefordshire market town; including poetry, historic…
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Leominster to receive £85,000 from national Cultural Programme
Leominster is the latest town have its bid for cultural heritage funding successfully granted. The funding, available as part of the £95 million High…