Tickets Alert: 600th anniversary of the Harmondsworth Great Barn

To mark the 600th anniversary of the Great Barn at Harmondsworth, a one-day conference will celebrate the building’s history and survival.The ‘new barn’ was built in 1426 by Winchester College, who owned the manor of Harmondsworth, to replace old barns used to store cereal crops. The manor had been bought a generation earlier by William of Wykeham, then Bishop of Winchester, as part of his endowment for Winchester College. Despite its agricultural origins, the barn has been hai