'Rapturous Delight' Christmas at Croome

Discover ‘Rapturous Delight’, a specially commissioned, immersive projection celebrating the story of Croome’s landscape through the seasons and explore the festively decorated rooms of the Court’s ground floor. Find out about Pages from Nature here.

As the world of plants and nature flourishes inside the Court, characters from the Wild Imagination exhibition have escaped into the Parkland taking our family visitors on an adventure with them.

Feeling crafty? Try your hand at wreath making or printing your own Christmas cards. Listen to one of our local choirs in the Church for that festive feel or just soak up the beauty of the winter landscape.

Rapturous Delight at Croome

Friday 6 to Sunday 22 December 2024 - 11am to 5pm.

Why not start your visit to Croome after 2pm so you can see the grounds at twilight as you make your way down the illuminated pathway through the grounds to the House?

Croome’s festive sensory experience is a specially commissioned, immersive projection in house by Leo & Hyde. Inspired by Croome’s Pages from Nature theme, which celebrates the 200-year anniversary of the publication of the Hortus Croomensis. This enchanting light and sound experience explores Croome’s remarkable landscape and plant collection, bringing the outside in for our visitors to enjoy over the festive season.

Free (normal admission applies). Entry to the House will be by timed ticket, you will receive this upon arrival at Visitor Reception. Last entry to the house is at 4.30pm. This will ensure our visitors have the chance to enjoy the experience to the fullest.

Audience Advisory: Important Health and Safety Notice

In compliance with UK Health and Safety regulations, we advise that this performance contains flashing lights, strobe effects, and loud music that may not be suitable for individuals with photosensitive epilepsy or sensitivities to intense sound. Limited seating is available on a first come, first served basis.

For your safety, please consider these factors when choosing to attend. If you have questions or concerns, please contact our team prior to the show. Viewer discretion is advised.

Creative Workshops

Christmas wreath making workshop

Wednesday 27 November 2024 - 11.30am to 1.30pm (Sold Out)

Join Croome's expert florists who create all the floristry displays in the house at Croome and make your own festive wreath to take home with you.

You'll make your own Christmas wreath from natural materials including some foraged items from Croome's parkland?

Our experts will guide you through making your own wreath on a wire frame with moss base and adding those important personal touches to take home ready for the festive season.

Please bring a pair of scissors/secateurs and gloves for handling holly.

Tickets are £40 per person, which includes all materials, your wreath to take home, a mince pie and a drink.

Christmas card printing workshop

Friday 29 November 2024 - 1pm to 3pm (Sold Out)

Additional date added Thursday 28 November - 1pm to 3pm

Join art practitioner Maggi at National Trust Croome to learn print making skills and print your own set of high-quality Christmas cards to take home.

Make a set of ten hand printed Christmas cards and learn print making skills.

Either bring along your own ideas or work with Maggi to develop your designs, which you will then draw into printing blocks before using printer’s inks to print your own set of ten Christmas cards.

Tickets are £25 per person which includes all materials, your set of Christmas cards with envelopes, re-usable printing blocks to take home with you and a mince pie and drink.

Wild Imagination Outdoor Family trail

Saturday 30 November until Sunday 5 January 2025

As the world of plants and nature flourishes inside the Court, characters from the Wild Imagination exhibition have escaped into the Parkland taking our family visitors on an adventure with them.

Brought to life by artist Sarah Taylor Silverwood in collaboration with young people from Pershore, embark on an outdoor adventure to discover them all! Venture into the parkland to discover a series of fantastical characters, originally created as part of Wild Imagination - a new animation by artist Sarah Taylor Silverwood.

Sarah worked with young people from Pershore to explore Croome’s landscape and plants, including some of those featured in the Hortus Croomensis, a guide to Croome’s vast and varied plant collection written by Head Gardener William Dean 200 years ago. Our Pages from Nature theme celebrates the anniversary of this publication, and participants responded to the theme by taking inspiration from nature, gathering drawings and imagining wild and wonderful characters that were brought to life by the artist.

Wild Imagination is part of a wider collaboration taking place throughout 2024 between Meadow Arts and Croome, which sees both organisations work with young people from Pershore to respond creatively to landscape, nature and heritage spaces. Join the characters on their adventure as they roam across Croome’s gardens in this year’s outdoor winter trail – how many will you discover?

This project is generously supported by the Tony Brooks legacy and public funding from Arts Council England and The Elmley Foundation.

Free trail - Normal admission applies.

Please note: Croome is closed 24 & 25 December.