Visit

The Market Square in Eynsham, showing St Leonard's Church and the Bartholomew Room

Opening times

The permanent exhibition is not yet up and running. The opening times for our latest special exhibition, Rural Eynsham, and our photographic exhibition, Eynsham Past and Present, which open on 5 April 2025, are as follows:

  • Saturdays, Sundays and bank holidays (except Easter Sunday): 11am – 4pm

Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. 

Group and school visits 

Additional opening for groups and students is available on request. Please email info@eynshammuseum.org.uk.

Entry

Entrance to the museum is free for everyone. Donations are always very welcome.

Find us

Bartholomew Room
Market Square
Eynsham
OX29 4HW

A map of Eynsham showing the location of the Bartholomew Room in the Square

Find us on Google Maps here: Eynsham Museum and Heritage Centre.

Getting here

By car

Eynsham is situated just south of the A40 between Oxford and Witney. There is very limited parking in Market Square, and you are advised to use either:

  • the main car park off Back Lane, Eynsham, OX29 4QB; or
  • the Sports Pavilion car park off the Oxford Road, Eynsham, OX29 4HG.

Both are free and within a 5-minute walk of Market Square.

By bus

There are regular buses between Oxford and Witney (approximately every 20 minutes) that stop at ‘St Leonard’s Church’ on Market Square, Eynsham.

Facilities

There is a disabled toilet on the ground floor of the Bartholomew Room. We do not offer refreshments, but there is a pub (The Red Lion) across the Square and a café (Lyalls) across the road.

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Items for sale

We have a number of items for sale at the museum. All profits from sales go towards the museum’s running costs.

Greetings cards

The dimension of all our greetings cards is 15 x 10½ centimetres.

  • Singles: £1
  • Packs of 10: £8
  • Packs of 20: £16
  • Packs of 50: £40
Stone carving of the Eynsham Angel, dating from around the 15th century CE
The Eynsham Angel, probably a ‘springer’ (a part of an arch) used for stone vaulting in the Abbey
Postcard of an painting depicting the east view of the inside of Eynsham Abbey

Eynsham Abbey from the east. An 18th-century romanticised version of an original sketch made by Anthony Wood in 1657
Postcard of a stained-glass image of Aelfric of Eynsham
Aelfric, first Abbot of Eynsham c. 1005 – c 1010, depicted in a 20th-century
stained-glass window in St Leonard’s parish church, Eynsham
An illuminated letter ‘E’ from a 12th-century manuscript that was once held in the library of Eynsham Abbey

An illuminated letter ‘E’ from a 12th-century manuscript that was once held in the library of Eynsham Abbey
Postcard of an old sketch of Eynsham Abbey

An original sketch made by Anthony Wood in 1657 of the interior of Eynsham Abbey, looking west
Postcard showing two medieval figures

Virgin and Child, from a 12th-century manuscript once held in the library
of Eynsham Abbey
Postcard of an advertisement for Pimms Stores in Eynsham, dating from 1905

A 1905 Christmas card issued by Pimm’s Stores, Eynsham

Special exhibition postcards

  • Single postcards: £0.50
  • 3 postcards: £1.20
  • 4 postcards: £1.60
Model of Eynsham Station in the 1950s, created by David Thomas. A passenger train sits at the station with allotments at the front of the photo.
Model of Eynsham Station in the 1950s, created by David Thomas (1).
Model of Eynsham Station in the 1950s, created by David Thomas. Closer view of a passenger train at the station, with fields and trees at the back of the photo.
Model of Eynsham Station in the 1950s, created by David Thomas (2).
Model of Eynsham Station in the 1950s, created by David Thomas. View from above of a passenger train at the station, with houses, allotments, fields, trees in the vicinity.
Model of Eynsham Station in the 1950s, created by David Thomas (3).
Model of Eynsham Station in the 1950s, created by David Thomas. View from above of the area around the station, with houses, allotments, fields and trees. Two trains sit at the station.
Model of Eynsham Station in the 1950s, created by David Thomas (4).

Books

Cover of the book 'The Lost Abbey of Eynsham' by Steve Parrinder
£40
The cover of the book 'Eynsham: A village and its Abbey'
£5
The cover of the book 'Eynsham Abbey' by Eric Gordon
£10
The cover of the book 'Historic Eynsham: A walker's guide to the older parts of the village' by Steve Parrinder
£10

Print

Artist's representation of Eynsham Abbey, depicting the abbey in its prime, with fields and abbey fishponds in front of it
Limited edition of ‘Medieval Eynsham Abbey: a view from the Fishponds’, signed by the artist Peter Lorimer: £30