Church Farmhouse Museum
The House & Farm
Church Farmhouse now has three furnished period rooms. The kitchen, set about 1820, has a huge open fireplace containing a clockwork spit jack, a chimney crane and bread oven. A splendid refectory table and oak dresser show off over a hundred Victorian kitchen utensils, including sugar cutters and a knife cleaner. In the scullery the display of laundry equipment includes washing dollies, flat irons and a linen press. The dining room is furnished as it would have been in the 1850s, with a fine oval dining table and the Windsor chairs. This room contains oak panelling dating from the late seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, which once formed a corridor between the stairs and the bedroom of the first floor.
The museum offers a free outreach programme for local schools. It also presents reminiscence sessions for old people's homes and day centres, and talks to local societies and other groups may be arranged.
Church Farmhouse Museum has a small shop, selling local history publications, cards and toys.
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