Well-dressing

Find out about all the events at the Malvern Water and Well Dressing Festival. We hope you can join us!

Where there’s a well, there’s a way….. If you’re thinking of visiting the annual Malvern Water and Well Dressing Festival 2025 over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend, you’ll certainly be in for a treat. Whether or not you’ve attended … Read More

The year is flying by, and plans for this year’s Malvern Water and Well Dressing Festival are in full swing. As always, that means well dressings, blessings, art, music, dance, and much May Day revelry! We hope you will be … Read More

What a wonderful weekend of Well-dressing! We hope you enjoyed visiting all the wells and spouts that were dressed this weekend. With a theme of “Literature” there were some wonderful recreations of favourite books. Narnia was a firm favourite with … Read More

The standard of entries for 2022 was very high. The Chairman’s cup plus a gold medal went to Thomas Gardiner’s descendants (Gardiner’s Common Spring). The Lionel Shorestone Award went to St Matthias’ primary school (Lord Sandys Spout) again, plus a … Read More

It’s almost May Day… And that means well-dressings, blessings, music, dance and much revelry! In 2020, the well-dressing event was cancelled altogether, although a few people dressed springs and their homes and gardens. Then in 2021, wells were dressed but … Read More

Before you visit the dressed wells, it’s probably a good idea to work out where they are, which ones you want to see (there are currently 57 on the list!!), and how you’re going to get there. Maps of the … Read More

Despite Covid-19, Malvern well-dressers rose to the challenge of dispelling the lock-down gloom. Teams dressed 46 wells, to this year’s theme of ‘Planets & Stars’. Gosh, what a magnificent display of dressings it is. As usual, the standard is considered … Read More

This year we had a new record of 44 wells being dressed over the same weekend. We believe it is now the largest Well-dressing event in the country,if not in the world * – Children’s entries Well Name Well-dressers GOLD … Read More

The Theme was “Achievement” Judging Criteria Visual impact – overall impression from a distance. Originality – interpretation of theme “Achievement” Artistic merit – quality of Dressing, both design, fabrication and choice of materials. Enhancement – of best qualities of site, including overcoming … Read More