Court House Tours Return at Easter – Dates

From Easter Saturday, April 19^th, Unlocking Warwick will be resuming our free Court House Tours for visitors and residents on selected Saturdays. And this year the Court House will be celebrating its tercentenary.

Between 10.30am and 11.15 am, guests will stroll around the Grade-1 listed building in Jury Street – the Old Court House, Town Hall and Visitor Centre – while guides tell of its construction in 1725 after the Great Fire of Warwick, and introduce visitors to the eleven-hundred-year history of the town.

Unlocking Warwick’s Rick Thompson said, “This will be our 9^th year of conducting summer tours round the Court House. During the tours, as well as talking about the 300-year-old Court House, the guides will relate stories of some of the big personalities that shaped Warwick after its founding in the tenth century by Aethelflaed, the Anglo-Saxon Lady of the Mercians.

Why six hundred years later were the town’s burgesses ejected from their Guildhall at the Westgate by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leycester, and obliged to move to the present site? And how did the Great Fire in 1694 change the face of the county town?

After Easter, The Court House Tours will be on the following Saturdays throughout the summer: May 3^rd and 31^st, July 5^th and 26^th, August 30^th, and during Heritage Open Days on September 13^th and 20^th. You can reserve your place on a tour by calling the Visitor Centre on 01926 492212.”