Recent trips and events

Northern Ireland

Photographs from the Arts Society visit to Northern Ireland in April:

The group at Queens University
On the stairs at Stormont

Edinburgh and Glasgow

Photographs from the Arts Society trip to Scotland in June 2025:

Dumfries House
Group from Derby outside The Burrell Collection entrance
Panel from House for an Art Lover, Glasgow

St Matthew’s Church, Morley

A group of ASD members visited St Matthew’s Church, Morley on 25th September 2024. We learned about their Heritage Fund project to conserve four celebrated medieval stained-glass windows, which came to the church from Dale Abbey at the time of the dissolution of the monasteries.
Jim Budd, expert glazier, talked to us about his conservation work, and church archivist Sheila Randall gave us a tour of the church with its many interesting historic features. It is hoped that the work will be completed by May 2025.

Suffolk

Photographs from the Arts Society trip to Suffolk in April 2024:

A group photo at Sutton Hoo

Maggie Hambling’s Scallop sculpture

The Bell Shed at East Bergholt with our guide, Claire