CITY OF WORCESTER DECORATIVE AND FINE ARTS SOCIETY    

 Founded in 1987

The City of Worcester DFAS is a Member Society of the National Decorative and Fine Arts Society (NADFAS) and is in the West Mercia Area of NADFAS

The altar frontal of Old St Martin's Church OFFERTORY BAGS FOR WORCESTER CATHEDRAL

  NADFAS Heritage Volunteers help to conserve our heritage, both in Britain and in parts of Europe .  Conservation and preservation of our heritage are tremendous burdens on the limited resources of museums, National Trust properties, historic houses, libraries, churches and gardens.  Volunteers help them in non-specialist but vital ways by caring for collections, recording documents, guiding and stewarding. Heritage Volunteers help to keep them accessible for all.  

CoWDFAS has groups which are involved in cataloguing the library of Hagley Hall, helping in the Hurd Library at Hartlebury Castle. conserving the Royal Worcester Pattern Books at the Dyson Perrins Museum, and in the repair and restoration of Church vestments and altar frontals, such as the one illustrated above in Old St Martin’s Church in the Cornmarket, and vestments made for the Cathedral, by a team headed by the late Carolyn Lewis-Barclay.

In 2011, in conjunction with the Cathedral embroiderers, ten new Offertory Bags were stitched in canvas. Five red bags were stitched by the CoWDFAS textile group and five blue bags by the Cathedral embroiderers. The assembly of all the bags was completed by the textile group in June 2011

If you are interested in Heritage Volunteers, please make contact with Robin Bailey via the

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