Events

Hyde900 - Hyde Abbey Garden Work Party

📅 Saturday 23 August 2025

⏰ from 9.30am

📍 Hyde Abbey Garden, SO23 7DQ 

New volunteers are always welcome, bring gloves / gardening tools.

Medieval tile-making workshop

📅 Saturday 13 September 2025       

An amazing opportunity to have a go at making tiles in the medieval manner! 

More info... Booking open - morning workshops sold out, a few tickets left across the afternoon sessions

Medieval seal-making workshop

📅 Saturday 13 September 2025       

Step into the shoes of a medieval monk and make a seal to authenticate a grant!  

More info... Booking open - first and last workshops sold out, a few tickets left across the other sessions

The fall of a monastic city: Winchester’s medieval monasteries and their Reformation fate 

An illustrated talk by James Clark, University of Exeter, author of 'The Dissolution of the Monasteries'

📅 Saturday 13 September 2025, 7-8.30pm       

More info... Booking open - the talk will be held at St Bartholomew, Hyde - not the Åland Islands as shown on the booking site!

'Hidden Waterways of Winchester'

📅 Saturday 13 September 2025       

A talk by Winchester City Guide, Erica Wheeler 

More info...  Sold out - waiting list available

A journey through the architectural transformation of Hyde Abbey

📅 Saturday 13 September 2025       

A walking history tour of key sites in Hyde relating to the former Abbey, led by Francesca Sluman of Hyde900 and Dr Helen Lawrence-Beaton of ADAM Architecture.  

The tour will explain the history of this important complex and its demise, and trace the dispersal of some of the architectural fragments of the Abbey post-dissolution.

More info...  Sold out - waiting list available

Exhibition of Finds

📅 Saturday 13 September 2025       

What's been discovered under our feet and gardens in Hyde? 

Join us to explore some of the fascinating archaeological finds uncovered during community excavations between 2016 and 2023.

🏺 See real artefacts and learn about their historical significance

🔍 Chat with local archaeology experts

No booking needed – just come along!

Hyde900 - King Alfred Weekend Concert

📅 Friday 24 October 2025

⏰ 7pm

📍 St. Bartholomew’s Church, King Alfred Place, Winchester, SO23 7DF

💷 £15 non-members / £10 Hyde900 members - booking opens in September

Cambridge Renaissance Voices 

Reformation and Renaissance in Tudor England, sacred music from Taverner to Byrd

Director: Rupert Preston Bell 

Hyde900 AGM 

📅 Saturday 25 October 2025

⏰ 11am

📍 St. Bartholomew’s Church, King Alfred Place, Winchester, SO23 7DF 

Join us for a short AGM, coffee and cakes, and the opportunity both to hear what we've been up to this year and to have your say on local issues and events you'd like to see in 2026. 

King Alfred Weekend Lecture

📅 Saturday 25 October 2025

⏰ 7pm

📍 St. Bartholomew’s Church, King Alfred Place, Winchester, SO23 7DF

💷 £12 non-members / £8 Hyde900 members - booking opens in September

David Carpenter, Professor of Medieval History, King’s College London

1225-2025 The 'Real' Magna Carta and Hyde Abbey's part in its story

Professor Carpenter is a leading authority on the history of Britain in the central Middle Ages and has been heavily involved in the Magna Carta project. He hit the media headlines earlier this year after discovering a further copy of Magna Carta in the archives of Harvard University.

Professor Carpenter will talk about the ‘re-issue’ and why the 1225 version is the ‘real’ Magna Carta. This important event was witnessed by Abbot Aston of Hyde Abbey, whose title appears on the charter.

King Alfred Church Service

📅 Sunday 26 October 2025

⏰ 10am

📍 St. Bartholomew’s Church, King Alfred Place, Winchester, SO23 7DF

A special service commemorating Alfred the Great and honouring his legacy.  Following the service, a procession and prayers at the grave site in Hyde Abbey Garden. All welcome! 

Hyde900 @ St. Bart's Christmas Fair

📅 29 November 2025

More details to follow...