Sensory Heritage: Touch - Cancelled

Explore a historic building by feeling its structure and contents: experience rarely open St Mary-on-the-Hill through touch: appreciate the range of material and textures that tells us about the building and how it’s developed over time, and explore objects from the Grosvenor Museum.

How we understand historic buildings usually revolves around the visual, typically drawings and printed words, and, of course, the buildings themselves. But buildings are physical things in the landscape, and they typically create spaces that are felt and experienced. This event will allow people to experience a historic building, St Mary-on-the-Hill Church, in a different way, directly through touch. Visitors will have the opportunity to feel the building’s walls, columns, furniture, and monuments; and to appreciate the range of material and textures that tells us about what the building is and how it has developed over time.

Free event: sessions at 09:00 & 11:00 to be booked in advance.