Research Update - Bishop Heahmund, The Polychronicon and Links to Keynsham Abbey!
One of our Abbey volunteers has been conducting research with Exeter University seeking to uncover as much information as possible, about...
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Andy Williams
- Sep 5
- 1 min
Preparation for Heritage Open Days
Our volunteers were out in force at the weekend (Saturday 2nd September 2023) in order to prepare the site for the Heritage Open Days...
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Andy Williams
- Aug 12
- 2 min
Pop-Up Museum For Keynsham!!
Keynsham Through Time: The Abbey And The Brass Mills An exhibition celebrating Keynsham Abbey and the Brass Mills of Keynsham, with...
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Andy Williams
- Aug 12
- 1 min
Keynsham Town Council Grant 2023/24
On Thursday 20th July 2023, Keynsham Town Council hosted an Awards Evening held at 'The Space' in Keynsham. The awards are given to...
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Andy Williams
- Aug 12
- 2 min
Summer 2023 Update
Despite the awful weather, our volunteers have been busy keeping the abbey site tidy and free of weeds. The poor weather caused us to...
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Andy Williams
- Aug 12
- 2 min
Abbey Brief Update
Sincere apologies for the delay in publishing our blog updates!! Apart from some awful weather that has restricted some of our gardening...
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Andy Williams
- Mar 29
- 1 min
Spring 2023 has arrived!!
Saturday 18th March 2023. Spring was evident in the Abbey grounds where volunteers took advantage of the good weather and started an...
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Andy Williams
- Jan 3
- 1 min
A Floor Tile Returns!!
A few months ago, we were contacted by a former teacher, who told us that, when working at Broadlands School in the 1980s, a pupil had...
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Andy Williams
- Nov 26, 2022
- 1 min
Abbey Garden Volunteer Days - Winter/Spring/Summer 2023 Programme
Volunteers meet to tidy and maintain the Abbey gardens (subject of course to weather conditions). These events are usually held...
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Andy Williams
- Nov 26, 2022
- 1 min
New Sign for Keynsham Abbey!!
We are delighted to unveil the brand new sign for Keynsham Abbey. As a result of support and funding from 'Your Park', Keynsham Town...
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Andy Williams
- Jul 25, 2022
- 1 min
New Experimental Signage & Nave Uncovered
The gardening event on Saturday 23rd July 2022 saw a couple of interesting developments we wanted to share. We have been experimenting...
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Andy Williams
- Jul 22, 2022
- 1 min
Keynsham Town Council Grant Award
We are pleased to announce that Keynsham Town Council have awarded our Working Group with funding to help improve awareness and knowledge...
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Andy Williams
- Jul 22, 2022
- 1 min
Somerset Life Magazine Article
The June 2022 edition of the Somerset Life magazine has a wonderful article on Keynsham, Keynsham Abbey and an interview with our chair,...
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Andy Williams
- Jun 27, 2022
- 1 min
Volunteers in Action
We had a very productive volunteer event on Saturday 25th June. 6 volunteers attended with a number of casual visitors. Great progress...
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Andy Williams
- Jun 14, 2022
- 1 min
Abbey Garden Volunteer Days - Summer/Autumn 2022 Programme
Volunteers meet to tidy and maintain the Abbey gardens (subject of course to weather conditions). These events are usually held...
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Andy Williams
- Jun 14, 2022
- 3 min
Jasper Tudor's Will
JASPER TUDOR’S WILL By 1495 Jasper Tudor, uncle to Henry VII, was the patron of Keynsham Abbey. By his Will, dated 6 days before his...
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Andy Williams
- Jun 14, 2022
- 1 min
Successful Open Day - 14th May 2022
We held our Open Day (first open day post Covid Lockdowns), on Saturday 14th May 2022. The Abbey site was open to visitors from 11am to...
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Andy Williams
- Dec 15, 2021
- 1 min
15/12/2021- Excavation Images
Images from the Archaeological work conducted in the 1960s. Watch this space.....more images to follow. The above photographs were taken...
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Andy Williams
- Dec 14, 2021
- 3 min
15/12/2021 - Keynsham Abbey Working Group Award
In October 2021, we were delighted to learn that we had been awarded a grant by "Your Park" to help us raise awareness of the Keynsham...
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Andy Williams
- Dec 14, 2021
- 1 min
15/12/2021 - Bristol History & Archaeology Society
BHAS was formed in 1951 by those attending archaeology/history classes at Bristol Folk House. In the 1960s, we became involved in rescue...
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Andy Williams
Research Update - Bishop Heahmund, The Polychronicon and Links to Keynsham Abbey!
One of our Abbey volunteers has been conducting research with Exeter University seeking to uncover as much information as possible, about...
Andy Williams
Preparation for Heritage Open Days
Our volunteers were out in force at the weekend (Saturday 2nd September 2023) in order to prepare the site for the Heritage Open Days...
Andy Williams
Pop-Up Museum For Keynsham!!
Keynsham Through Time: The Abbey And The Brass Mills An exhibition celebrating Keynsham Abbey and the Brass Mills of Keynsham, with...
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