Eye- 04 February 2011
From Snowdrops to Senate House
Snowdrop Sunday
The photograph of their snowdrops on our front cover has prompted Eye to congratulate Ettington Meeting, near Stratford-Upon-Avon, on their creative outreach work.
The meeting has a beautiful garden and ex-burial ground which is covered in snowdrops at this time of year. Our Friend Jill Boucher tells Eye that in early February they open for ‘Snowdrop Sunday’ as a form of outreach, making the Meeting house accessible and welcoming and inviting people from the village to visit.It has become an annual event.
This year ‘Snowdrop Sunday’ is 6 February.
The single-roomed Meeting House has a flagstone floor and was built between 1681 and 1684 on land bequeathed by Samuel Lucas. The rush matting insulation on the walls has been there for 200 years. Members of the meeting have recently learned how to do the weaving to repair it.
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