ABOUT INGATESTONE MUSEUM

Ingatestone Museum Trust is a registered charity which has been established to oversee the management and day to day running of Ingatestone Museum .

The Ingatestone Museum Trust and  Greater Anglia  have signed the lease for the Gatekeeper's cottage and interior renovations are now complete, exterior works on track for completion..

This is very much a local. community museum.  Our dual aims are  to preserve one of the few Gatekeeper's cottages left in England and to open a local, accessible museum. We have displays showing the development of Ingatestone  and Fryerning from the original stones onward! This includes the particular importance of the stagecoach and railway to our area.

 We are working in liaison with local organizations  to develop an oral/visual record/data base of living here in bygone times. 

As part of our community links we have changing displays linking to local school curricula, for example displays showing evacuee memories and photos of the villages during the Second World War when this is studied locally. 

 Local organizations/societies are providing changing art and photographic displays within the museum. Our first is the Meet and Paint group. Many thanks to all the local organizations and residents for their help and input into this project.  

The development of the museum is due  to the support we receive locally, from volunteers to donations. Many thanks to The Brentwood Arts Society for their kind donation to be used to purchase art /photo display rails in the entry room to showcase local school and club works.

The Trust is also very grateful to Essex Heritage Trust for its grant which has been used to purchase display cabinets and materials in the museum. 

We have received ongoing support from Ingatestone and Fryerning Parish Council and the Railway Heritage Trust who have paid for the physical renovation of the exterior building and towards internal decoration. 

We have also received a grant from UKSIF fund, via Brentwood Borough Council, to renovate the doors and windows of the building which date back to the 1830s.  The Essex Locality Fund has provided a grant for environmental monitors to ensure collection care, and the entry room display board.

This support is very much appreciated. Essex Arts fund has also provided display units and stands for the children's metal rubbing trail.