Events & Celebrations

The Assembly Room - St Albans Museum and Gallery

All are invited to the Assembly Rooms in St Albans for a family-friendly exhibition looking at Bacon’s scientific work and legacy.

FREE

Exhibition: Francis Bacon – A Man for All Time?

This display in the Church of St Michael’s is free to all.

Explore the Essays of Sir Francis Bacon, each of which reflects on profound topics such as truth, death and love, alongside broader social issues like such as religion and ambition.

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Tudor Fair and Flower Extravaganza!

St Michael’s Church, Churchyard, and Paddock

Saturday 11 July 2026,

11am–4pm

Imagine a Tudor village, come to life in modern-day St Albans!

Join us for an afternoon of fun for all the family. With living history from legendary Tudor re-enactors ‘The Suffolk Free Company’, Tudor games and refreshments, a flower extravaganza in church, Tudor music and dance, and lots more, this is a summer fair not to miss! Free to all, with thanks to our partners at OVO Roman Theatre, The Three Brewers, The Lower Red Lion, St Albans Mayoralty and many more.

Free entry

The Winding Stair

The Roman Theatre, St Michael’s Church, and St Michael’s Village

Saturday 11 July 2026,

Performances at 1, 3 and 5 pm.

The Winding Stair

By Jesse Norman

Directed by Adam Nichols

Power is shifting. Queen Elizabeth I is dying, James waiting to become King. Everywhere, there is opportunity to ascend.

But who will thrive, and who will fail, under the new King? Will it be the scholar Francis Bacon, whose brilliant mind is the envy of the royal court? Or his hated rival the attorney Edward Coke, already acclaimed as the greatest lawyer of his generation?

The Winding Stair tells the gripping story of these two founders of our modern world and their battle for power, pre-eminence – and the hand of the most eligible woman in the realm.

Combining humour, wit and vivid imagination, The Winding Stair is an epic tale of jealousy and intrigue in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, which – in its lowest moments – holds a darkened mirror to our own contemporary politics.

Adapted by Jesse Norman from his bestselling novel – winner of the 2023 Parliamentary Book Awards, New Statesman Book of the Year and Sunday Times Book of the Week.

These special previews, ahead of the show’s premiere in November 2026, will be presented as a promenade performance between the Roman Theatre and Bacon’s memorial in the Chancel of St Michael’s Church.

Book Tickets here

Harry Christophers and The Sixteen

Thursday 17th September, 7.30pm

A part of Bacon400, join us at St Michael’s Church for an unforgettable evening of music and song from the the Tudor period performed by 8 singers from the globally renowned Sixteen, led by their director Harry Christophers.

See how music responded to a time of political and religious upheaval, when the English language flowered alongside Latin, and new persepctives turned old certainties upside down.