Events
The Traherne Festival 2024
The Traherne Festival is held each summer in Credenhill (5 miles NW of Hereford), and in Hereford. Our next festival will be held between 1st and 3rd June 2024.
Speakers at this year’s festival include the Very Revd Michael Tavinor, Dean Emeritus of Hereford Cathedral, who will be talking about Tom Denny’s Traherne windows in the cathedral. For a booking form giving full details of all the events, please click here
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.
. This year’s lecture will be given by our chairman, Richard Willmott. The title of his talk is ‘“The wheat was silver”: Thomas Traherne and Modern Poetry’.Jeremy Maule Lecture 2023