Our Art Festival
This year’s festival will take place on Saturday 5th September 2026 (10.30am - 5pm) and Sunday 6th September 2025 (10.30am - 4pm).
Attractions
- Exhibition and Sale of Paintings – held in St. Margaret’s Church. This consists of around 200 framed originals displayed on the walls, along with many more unframed originals and prints in selection racks. Please visit Our Artist page regularly to keep up to date with who will be exhibiting this year as it is being updated all the time
- Craft Fair – with the surge in interest in crafts in recent years, we have expanded to include a craft fair, located in the churchyard, showcasing interesting and unique handcrafted items for sale. See Our Crafters page for details.
- Music and Entertainment – in 2015, for the first time, we included performing arts, which proved to be a welcome and popular addition. Please see Our Entertainment page for details of this year’s line up
- Grand Prize Draw
- Alderton ‘Antiques’ – Linda and her team have been busy again collecting and sorting treasures, so make sure you pop in – there is always a bargain to be had at our amazing white elephant sale.
- Book stall – we have a huge selection of pre-read books to choose from
- Tea Tent – open all day serving the best homemade cakes and savouries in South Northants!
- All Day Barbecue – mouth watering bacon sandwiches and burgers
- Real Ale Tent – open all day featuring a range of excellent real ales from Towcester Mill Brewery, our local brewers.
- People’s Choice Award – Village Framers of Lillingstone Lovell have very kindly donated a £50 framing voucher to the artist whose picture is voted the People’s Choice. The winner will be announced at approximately 4.30 p.m. on Sunday 6th September 2025. Every visitor to our Art Festival will be asked to vote for their favourite painting, with the painting receiving the most votes winning the £50 voucher.
