Day One

Meet at Thirsk Hall at 10am for coffee. We then look at the Gillow furniture and tour the house. Afterwards, we visit St Mary’s church next door to the hall to be shown around by Michael Armstrong. Items of interest include a medieval font cover and boarded chest. Following lunch, we visit Marcus Jacka’s Non-Standard furniture studio, a short drive from town.

Day Two

10.30am, meet for coffee at The White Rose Book Cafe in Thirsk followed by a visit to Treske Furniture for a tour of the factory. In the afternoon we visit St Gregory’s church in Bedale – thirteenth-century in the main and less than thirty minutes’ drive from Thirsk. This has a fortified tower, tomb effigies, fifteenth-century and later wall paintings, poppyhead choir stalls carved by Robert Thompson of Kilburn in 1948, carved woodwork of sixteenth/seventeenth century and furniture including two chests. The day will end with afternoon tea.

Cost: £65. Admission charges, morning coffee and a light lunch are included.

Closing date for applications is now 20 July, numbers strictly limited to 25. 

Please complete the Booking Form and send to RFS Events Team at events.rfs@gmail.com by 20 July 2026. You will be sent payment details in the following week. 

Please indicate if you are travelling by train – Thirsk Station is on the main east coast line – so that lifts to & from the Station can be arranged.