Events
The Traherne Festival
The Traherne Festival is held each summer in Credenhill (5 miles NW of Hereford), and in Hereford.
The 2025 Festival was held between 7th and 9th June. Beth Dodd, Janet Wootton, Robert Walker and Richard Willmott where our Saturday speakers, with music from Andrew Howse as we shared our supper. On Sunday Bishop David Thomson preached at our Eucharist at All Saints in Hereford, followed by a concert of Traherne-related recorded music compered by Ross Rosankiewicz. A lovely lunch was provided by Bill’s Kitchen, which is also situated in All Saints, followed by our AGM and Choral Evensong. Our Monday outing was to the Bromyard area.
Recordings of the 2025 presentations will be available here shortly.
An archive of recordings from previous Festivals is also available:
- 2024 Bishop David Thomson, Dr Peter Auger, The Very Rev’d Michael Tavinor, and Daniel T Haase
- 2023 Dr Cassandra Gorman, Prof Helen Wilcox, and Dr Julia Smith.
- 2022 Professor Jacob Blevins, Thomas Clifton, Dominic Gwynn
The Jeremy Maule lecture
Thomas Traherne, Hereford’s poet priest, was buried on 10 October in 1674 and is celebrated both in the Church of England’s calendar and by the annual Jeremy Maule lecture. The 2024 lecture, marking the 350th anniversary of Traherne’s death, was given to a full hall by the Rt Revd Dr Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury.
A Joint Study Day with the Vaughan Association will be held at Hay Castle on Saturday 6th September. Cassie Gorman and Anne Johnston are already booked as speakers, and more are to be announced. Places are very limited: please see the booking details.
The 2025 Jeremy Maule Lecture on “Time and Dependence in the work of Traherne” will be given by the Very Revd Dr Jessica Martin, Dean of Chelmsford and a former Fellow in English Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge at 3pm on Saturday 11th October 2025 in the College Hall at Hereford Cathedral. See more details and reserve a place.