Kingsbridge Cookworthy Museum

Kingsbridge Cookworthy Museum In the 17th century former grammar school, discover a museum telling the story of Kingsbridge and the South Hams, Devon. We’d love to see you.

Come visit the Old Grammar School in the beautiful town of Kingsbridge and see the marks left by hundreds of years of pupils. Explore our Victorian kitchen and scullery, find out about farming in the South Hams, and discover faces from the past with our photographic collection. We have plenty for the whole family to do, with quizzes, craft activities and a duck hunt...

Our opening hours are 10:3

0-3:30 Monday to Friday, Easter to October. Want to find out more about the past? We have a resource centre with local archives, newspapers, photographs and more. Available to researchers and anyone with an interest in local history. Open by appointment, please give us at least 24 hours notice.

Hello! Yesterday someone kindly dropped these medals off at the Cookworthy Museum (or at least left them on a table in o...
12/12/2024

Hello! Yesterday someone kindly dropped these medals off at the Cookworthy Museum (or at least left them on a table in our entrance hall). We'd love to know more about them (one of them is inscribed but we know nothing else about the recipient) so please do get in touch with us on 01548 853235 so we can add the details to our accessions. Thanks in advance!

01/09/2024

PICTURE OF THE MONTH - SEPTEMBER 2024.

Back to school! Not a photograph this month, but a painting which is available to view in the Cookworthy Room at the Museum. The painting is of Thomas Crispin, who built the Kingsbridge Grammar School (which now houses the Museum) in 1671. In 1689 in his will he left monies, namely “£5 a year for repairs; £15 for the head master, in consideration of his teaching at least 15 free scholars in classical learning; and £10 to a master for teaching 25 poor children to read and 12 to write. To provide for these payments, he left a farm of 72 acres at Washbearhays, in Bradninch (near Cullompton) now worth about £40 a year.”

Transcribed from William White’s History, Gazetteer and Directory of Devonshire, 1850.

Postcards of this painting are available for sale in the Museum shop.

Did you know that the Museum has a collection of over 30,000 images which are available to purchase?

Visit https://kingsbridgemuseum.org.uk/image-archive/ for more details.

Book now in stock at Kingsbridge Cookworthy Museum.
10/07/2024

Book now in stock at Kingsbridge Cookworthy Museum.

***This SATURDAY 13th July*** 10.30am-12.30
Hilary Cartwright will be here with copies of ‘Fig and the Sailors Cap’, the book she has written and illustrated, based on her own dog, Fig.⛵️🧢

25/06/2024
If you want to listen to the BBC Radio Devon series about the evacuation of the South Hams in 1943, you can find it in '...
04/06/2024

If you want to listen to the BBC Radio Devon series about the evacuation of the South Hams in 1943, you can find it in 'A Podded History of Devon' at www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06ldvn2

03/06/2024

BBC Radio Devon will be broadcasting 7 programmes about the Evacuation of the South Hams and D-Day practices. 10.45 a.m. today, daily until Friday, then 7.30 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. This includes interviews, oral history material from the Museum's Memory Bank, and excerpts from 'Red Earth', a recently rediscovered play on the subject.

30/05/2024

Coming soon!! 💥🔜🏆

Flotsam are all set up and there is plenty of cake - who's coming to learn some circus skills today?
30/05/2024

Flotsam are all set up and there is plenty of cake - who's coming to learn some circus skills today?

20/05/2024

The Cookworthy Museum is delighted to welcome KATIE GRACE HARRIS in concert on Saturday 22 June in the Walled Garden. Tickets (£12.50) available in advance from the Museum. Includes Ploughman's Supper (meat or veggie).

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REMINDER!! Saturday 20 April. Tickets £5.00
17/04/2024

REMINDER!! Saturday 20 April. Tickets £5.00

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108 Fore Street
Kingsbridge
TQ71AW

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01548 853235

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Come visit the old grammar school in the beautiful town of Kingsbridge and see the marks left by hundreds of years of pupils. Explore our Victorian kitchen and scullery, find out about farming in the South Hams, and discover faces and places from the past with our photographic collection. We have plenty for the whole family to do, with quizzes, dressing up, craft activities and a duck hunt... We are open Easter until the end of October, Monday-Saturday 10:30-5pm (4pm in October.) We have a new exhibition for 2018 all about Margaret Lorenz plus year 2 of our Cookworthy Exhibition in partnership with ‘The Box’ (formerly Plymouth Museum). Entry is only £3 for adults, £2.50 for concessions and FREE for Children (under 16’s). Want to find out more about the past? We have a resource centre with local archives, newspapers, photographs and more. Available to researchers and anyone with an interest in local history. Open Monday-Thursday 10-12 (extended until 3pm on Wednesdays)