The Upminster Tithe Barn Museum of Nostalgia is a small

museum A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or Preservation (library and archive), preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private colle ...

located in

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in the London Borough of Havering, London, England. It is located at OS grid reference TQ564877. It is owned by

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and run in partnership with the Hornchurch and District Historical Society. The museum holds around 14,500 artifacts of domestic and agricultural use. , the museum is closed while a significant programme of works is undertaken on the barn structure and roof, funded by a grant provided by the

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Company. The museum opened in 1976. The

thatched Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge ('' Cladium mariscus''), rushes, heather, or palm branches, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. Since the bulk of ...

barn in which the museum is located was built in 1450 by the nearby priory (dependent on

Waltham Abbey Waltham Abbey is a suburban town and civil parish in the Epping Forest District of Essex, within the London metropolitan area, metropolitan and urban area of London, England, East London, north-east of Charing Cross. It lies on the Greenwich ...

). Although commonly known as the ''Tithe Barn'', the building was never used for the collection of

tithe A tithe (; from Old English: ''teogoþa'' "tenth") is a one-tenth part of something, paid as a contribution to a religious organization or compulsory tax to government. Modern tithes are normally voluntary and paid in money, cash, cheques or v ...

s and a grange barn might be a more accurate designation (

's real tithe barn adjoined the rectory in what is now Gridiron Place).

Upminster station Upminster is an interchange station serving the town of Upminster in the London Borough of Havering, Greater London. It is on the London, Tilbury and Southend line (LTSR), down the line from Fenchurch Street railway station, London Fenchurch St ...

is the nearest National Rail and London Underground station. The Upminster Tithe Barn Museum is served by London Buses route 248.

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Image:Upminster tithe barn north.jpg, North face Image:Upminster tithe barn west.jpg, West face Image:Upminster tithe barn south.jpg, South face, main entrance

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Official website

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Buildings and structures completed in 1450 Barns in England Museums established in 1976 1976 establishments in England Folk museums in the United Kingdom Rural history museums in England Museums in the London Borough of Havering Thatched buildings in England Tithe barns in Europe {{UK-museum-stub

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