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Launch of The Lydiard Archives
Category: News Published on: 8th March 2022

On 10th September 2021, The Friends of Lydiard Park launched The Lydiard Archives, a unique on-line collection of objects,...

Friends make bid to Arts Council for Memories Project
Category: News Published on: 7th March 2022

The Friends of Lydiard Park have made a £45,000 bid to The Arts Council South West for a digital Memories Project to...

The Lydiard Archives – Love Tokens and Keepsakes Collection
Category: News Published on: 11th February 2022

Our latest collection celebrates the theme of love with a group of exquisite St.John family miniatures drawn from Lydiard...

The Lydiard Archives – Yuletide Collection
Category: News Published on: 3rd December 2021

Throughout the centuries, Lydiard House and Park has celebrated the Yuletide season in its own unique way, and left a...

The Lydiard Archives – The World War I Collection
Category: News Published on: 4th November 2021

We are commemorating Remembrance Sunday this month with a focus on the World War I Collection in the Lydiard...

The Lydiard Archives – Featured Collections
Category: 20th century, News Published on: 20th September 2021

The Lydiard Archives has launched with three fascinating featured collections: World War 1 -...

St. Mary’s Church launches brand new School Programme
Category: News Published on: 12th July 2021

As part of the £1million St. Mary’s Lydiard Tregoze Conservation Project, the church is launching an exciting new schools...

Pevsner Guide to Wiltshire
Category: News Published on: 29th June 2021

New Wiltshire Pevsner Guide features the St Mary's polyptych on the back cover of the new edition. A new edition of the...

Portrait Acquisition – Holles St John
Category: News Published on: 25th March 2021

The Trustees of the Friends of Lydiard Park have purchased a hitherto unknown portrait of one of the St John family and...

Lydiard House; brighter and better protected
Category: News Published on: 16th February 2021

Lydiard House has been given a bit of a facelift; and its more than cosmetic. Swindon Borough Council have completed a...