Things to do · Chipping Campden
Court Barn Museum
Chipping Campden's museum of craft and design, telling the story of Ashbee's Guild of Handicraft and the makers who followed, with half price for bus passengers.
Rainy days · Car-free
The best way into Campden's Arts and Crafts story. Your ticket lasts a year, under-25s go free, and arriving by bus or bike halves the price.
- Good: Ticket valid for a year
- Good: Under-25s, students and under-12s free
- Good: Half price with a bus ticket or cycle helmet
- Good: Step-free, with an accessible toilet
- Worth knowing: Closed on Mondays, except bank holidays
- Worth knowing: No car park of its own
About
Court Barn, on Church Street in Chipping Campden, is a museum of craft and design, opened in 2007, covering the makers, designers and artists who have worked in the north Cotswolds from 1900 to now. It starts with C. R. Ashbee's Guild of Handicraft, which moved from London's East End to Campden in 1902, bringing about 50 craftsmen and their families. Read our story of the Arts and Crafts movement.
It opens Tuesday to Sunday and on bank holiday Mondays from 10am to 4pm. An adult ticket is £7 and lasts a year; under-12s, under-25s and full-time students go free, Art Fund members pay half, and so does anyone arriving with a bus ticket or a cycle helmet. There is a museum shop.
The building is step-free, with an accessible toilet. There is no car park: use the Square or Back Ends, or the school car park on Cidermill Lane at weekends and in school holidays. St James's Church is along the same street.
Opening hours and season
| Monday | Closed |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 10:00 to 16:00 |
| Wednesday | 10:00 to 16:00 |
| Thursday | 10:00 to 16:00 |
| Friday | 10:00 to 16:00 |
| Saturday | 10:00 to 16:00 |
| Sunday | 10:00 to 16:00 |
Also open on bank holiday Mondays, 10am to 4pm.
Facilities
- Step-freeAccessible toilet and baby change
- No car parkUse the Square or Back Ends
- Museum shop
The details
- Features
- Shop
- History
- Museum of craft and design, opened 2007
- Parking
- No car park: use the Square or Back Ends, with a disabled bay near the museum. At weekends and in school holidays, park at Chipping Campden School on Cidermill Lane.
- Without a car
- Moreton-in-Marsh station is 6 miles away, Evesham 10 and Stratford-upon-Avon 12. Entry is half price with a bus ticket or cycle helmet.
Photos
Silver and its designs 
Contemporary silver 
Slipware by Michael Cardew 
Diadem by Jacqueline Mina
Location
Accessibility
- Step-free access
- Accessible toilet
- Assistance dogs welcome
Step-free entrance and exit. A disabled toilet with baby changing. Guide dogs and hearing dogs are welcome throughout. Staff are trained in early-stage dementia awareness, and visitor guides come in large print, Braille, and English, French, German, Spanish and Italian.
Places to stay nearby
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The Eight Bells Inn
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The Lygon Arms, Chipping Campden
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Cotswold House Hotel and Spa
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Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Eight Bells Inn 0.1 km away
- The Lygon Arms, Chipping Campden 0.3 km away
- Bantam Tea Rooms 0.3 km away
- Michael's Mediterranean 0.3 km away
Sights nearby
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Almshouses, Chipping Campden
Sight · Historic building · Chipping Campden
Twelve almshouses on Church Street in Chipping Campden, built in 1612 for Sir Baptist Hicks at a cost of £1,000 on an I-shaped plan said to honour James I, and still homes for older people. Grade I; seen from the street.
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Grevel's House, Chipping Campden
Sight · Historic building · Chipping Campden
A medieval house on Chipping Campden's High Street with a two-storey Perpendicular bay window under gargoyles, named after William Grevel, perhaps the richest Cotswold wool merchant of his day, who died in 1401. Grade I; a private house seen from the street.
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Market Hall, Chipping Campden
Sight · Historic building · Chipping Campden
The open arcade of 1627 in the middle of Chipping Campden's High Street, built by Sir Baptist Hicks as a sheltered market for butter, cheese and poultry, saved from sale to America in the 1940s and now the National Trust's. Grade I; the Cotswold Way starts beside it.
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Old Campden House, Chipping Campden
Sight · Historic building · Chipping Campden
The lodges, gateway and two banqueting houses that survive of Sir Baptist Hicks's great house beside St James's in Chipping Campden, burned by its own Royalist garrison in 1645. The banqueting houses are Landmark Trust holiday lets; the grounds open only on occasional open days.