CHRISTMAS is being celebrated at Croome with a magical experience inspired by nature.
Visitors to the National Trust house and parkland near Worcester can explore the festively decorated rooms of the court’s ground floor and discover Rapturous Delight, a specially commissioned, immersive video projection celebrating Croome’s landscape through the seasons.
Rapturous Delight, which runs from Friday December 6 to Sunday December 22, is inspired by Croome’s ‘Pages from Nature’ theme, celebrating the 200-year anniversary of the publication of the Hortus Croomensis – a 19th century guidebook to Croome’s parkland and instrumental in the parkland’s restoration.
It has been created by Leo & Hyde – a digital arts, music and theatre company – in partnership with audiovisual design and technology organisation, Focal Studios.
Leo Mercer, of Leo & Hyde, said: “It’s very exciting to develop a projection experience in response to the Hortus Croomensis for Croome this Christmas.
“The Long Gallery is so full of visual inspiration, and then on top of that, the Hortus Croomensis is full of delightful imagery. It’s a real Christmas treat for our team to be responding to it with a visual feast of a projection experience.”
Other festive events at Croome include the house, visitor centre, and church dressed for Christmas from Saturday November 30 until Sunday January 5 with plant displays in the natural and haphazard style of mid to late 18th-century floral fashions.
In the parkland will be a series of fantastical characters created as part of ‘Wild Imagination’ – a new animation by artist Sarah Taylor Silverwood and young people from Pershore.
And Croome’s tradition of hosting local choirs in St Mary Magdalene Church continues this year with free performances on Saturday November 30, Saturday December 7 and Saturday December 14, featuring Roses Theatre Choir, Pershore & Winchcombe Community Choirs and Voices Unlimited.
For more details visit nationaltrust.org.uk/croome
