Grotto Open Days – Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 September 2025 11am – 4pm

Grotto Open Days – Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 September 2025 11am – 4pm

Discover the world’s only grotto with a microclimate pool ringed by six Grotesque Faces carved into the walls, built from recycled waste from one of the first large-scale industrial brassworks – an important milestone in the Industrial Revolution. This site bravely confronts its complex past with the Quakers – old Dissenters – an industrial community …

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Open Weekend 28th & 29th May 2023

Open Weekend 28th & 29th May 2023

From the Kingswood Hertiage Museum… The remarkable surviving Grade II 18th century garden of brass-worker William Champion with its astonishing hidden grotto will be open the weekend of 28th – 29th of May 2023 from 11:00 to 16:30 each day. The concealed 18th century grotto, a unique remnant of Champion’s pleasure grounds, is open for …

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