Malmesbury Events & Festivals 2025 - download below or pick up a hard copy from the TIC Desk in Malmesbury Town Hall.  For more information visit:  www.discovermalmesbury.life/events.

Exhibition of Warden and Freeman of Malmesbury in Athelstan Museum 

Your guide to what's on in and around Malmesbury in the next few weeks.

The Dauntsey Doom Painting and the Reformation

Malcolm Sinclair will give an introduction to the unique Doom painting at the Chuch of St James the Great in Dauntsey and talk about how the English Reformation from Henry VII to Elizabeth I destroyed so much religious art in the 16th Century.

Entry 2.15 pm - tea served from 2.30 pm and talk starts at 3 pm.

Tickets for sale in the shop and online

(There will also be an opportunity to visit the Church on Sun 21st Sept (1.30 pm - 2.30 pm) - Malcolm will be there to show visitors the Doom painting and answer any questions - Donation to the Church of St James)

The Dauntsey Doom, Heaven & Hell & the art of the last judgement - a talk by Malcolm Sinclair

Malcolm will look at how the unique Doom painting at the Church of St James the great in Dauntsey and other similar art in England and Europe from the St Thomas Doom in Salisbury to the Sistine Chapel portray the Last Judgement when all souls are sent to the joys of Heaven or to the fires of Hell.

Entry from 6.30 pm, talk starts at 7.00 pm