Open House Festival

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Enfield Creatives

Enfield Creatives Collection is the Borough's experimental approach to Open House this year and has been made possible with support from the Enfield Society and UKSP funding.

Artists, poets and musicians have been commissioned to reveal and share their understanding, interpretation, knowledge, or feelings that connect or disconnect them as a creative individual to a building of their choice. Audiences and participants will experience buildings and architecture through music, poetry workshops, projection, and guided tour.

In 1136, the Lord of the Manor (Geoffrey de Mandeville) gave the church as an endowment to the Abbey which he founded at Walden in Essex. Surviving medieval features of the church include the chancel, the nave, the north aisle, the vestry and the tower. The eight bells in the tower weigh from 5 to 15 hundredweights. Five of them date back to the 1700s, one to 1866, and two to 1959.

St John the Evangelist, Palmers Green, is a prominent landmark on Green Lanes, the church was designed by John Oldrid Scott and was built 1903-1909. There is a wealth of post first world war Morris & Co glass, the east window by J.H. Dearle being particularly striking. There are more recent windows by Godard & Gibbs and a notable one of 1918 by Frank Salisbury.

John Oldrid Scott, 1905

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Forty Hall Estate

historical house

This Grade I listed Jacobean Manor House is set in a fine estate. Built by Sir Nicholas Rainton, Lord Mayor of London 1632-33, as a family home, it is presented as a multi period House with interesting features from different centuries.

Unknown, 1629

Gordon Hill Pillbox and anti-tank ‘dragon’s teeth’ are one of the few remaining examples of World War II defences that once surrounded London, built to defend against an expected German invasion in 1940. Artist Joe Robinson of Snapshot Heritage, and John Cole of The Enfield Society, are hosting a drop-in day looking at Pillbox and early war in Enfield.

Drop in

Music with Plants by the Glasshouse

historical house

Myddelton House Gardens were once home to Edward Augustus Bowles, one of Britain’s most famous self-taught gardeners, artists and expert botanists. The gardens are a treasure trove of hidden gems and the beautifully reconstructed Victorian Glasshouse Range is no exception.

The Old Vestry Office is a Grade II listed building that was built in the early 19th century. It was originally created as a Beadle's office but later used as a police station, containing 2 cells. The Old Enfield Charitable Trust - an independent charity serving those living and working within the boundary of the Ancient Parish - run their services from the Old Vestry Office.

The Valley Room is a research and project space created by AiR. It considers artist-making in the Lea Valley through a gathering of artefacts, films, objects, maps, books. Monthly openings highlight one artwork, with the artist making an intervention or exhibition.

Angel Yard is a versatile and creative communal hub. Located within Snell's Park in Edmonton, it provides a place for people to develop and share their skills, whilst enriching the community and strengthening social bonds, as people from diverse backgrounds come together to collaborate and learn.

Jan Kattein Architects, 2023