ENDELLIONFESTIVALS

The St Endellion Summer Festival was founded in 1958, when a musical priest, Roger Gaunt, was inspired to invite a group of college friends down to help him renovate St Endellion's derelict rectory. Slowly the festival grew and evolved from a group of friends putting on small-scale concerts and an annual play to include an orchestra and a chorus. And from the ranks of its enthusiastic participants emerged a young Cambridge graduate and organist - Richard Hickox - who became Artistic Director in the mid Seventies, when he also instituted a sister festival at Easter. Under Richard's baton the festival developed and its reputation grew, and he remained at the helm until his premature death in 2008.

Registration numbers: 1124805 (W), ZA258873 (W)

Primary location: London United Kingdom