Burngate Purbeck Stone Centre

Burngate Purbeck Stone Centre Located in the Isle of Purbeck to teach the local community and visitors the beauty of stone carving reliefs, lettering and sculptures.

Book classes or buy vouchers at www.burngatestonecentre.co.uk or just drop by. We have a varied programme of courses and activites, with something to suit everyone from 8 years to 80+ years. It enables a novice, improving and advanced stone carver to explore their creativity in the heart of the Purbeck stone industry. The location is inspirational, and the surrounding landscape of fields, old quar

ry workings and cliffs above the English Channel is a designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The area is also part of the Jurassic coast, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. We are open when courses are running at other times leave a message on the phone or send us an email.

Nice visit from a conglomerate of Geologists this evening, after this afternoon's Have a Go class. Thanks for dropping i...
11/06/2026

Nice visit from a conglomerate of Geologists this evening, after this afternoon's Have a Go class. Thanks for dropping in!

What's On at Burngate during June 2026? Now that Purbeck Arts Weeks have concluded, check out our schedule below and boo...
08/06/2026

What's On at Burngate during June 2026?
Now that Purbeck Arts Weeks have concluded, check out our schedule below and book your place on our June courses while you can!

And if you have done one of our courses already, why not join our Community Carving evenings, every Tuesday from 6pm here at Burngate.

02/06/2026

Join poet Alyson Hallett on 4th June at 14:00 at Burngate and explore what it means to listen to stones as part of Purbeck Art Weeks - what it means to have geopoetic roots -what it means to weave different perceptions and ways of being into a shimmering composite of being. Tickets available on the Burngate website for £20.

In conversation with Patrick Corbett, she will talk about her life-time’s work with migrating stones and all things geopoetic.
This event will be an immersive experience.

Alyson will share poems and stories from her life spent working with rocks and stones. This includes her international poetry and public art project, The Migration Habits of Stones, and more recent work that includes listening to the stones of Stanton Drew Stone Circles.

Seems we have a medieval stonecarver join us at Burngate Purbeck Stone Centre for . Come and find out more about what ...
02/06/2026

Seems we have a medieval stonecarver join us at Burngate Purbeck Stone Centre for . Come and find out more about what he's up to!!

29/05/2026

Tomorrow, come and spend a creative two-hour evening visit to a nearby quarry for a session with poet Sarah Acton Blackk Venn and geologist Patrick Corbett writing poetry in response to this special place with prompts and guided exercises. Quarry Quatrains - 30th May 17:00 - 19:00. Walk and guided poetry session starts at Burngate. Costs £15, book through the Burngate website in the bio.

Participants will get to experience dinosaurs walking in the landscape of the Purbeck Limestone plateau. Where the dinosaurs once left their prints, you can record your words. Quarry Quatrains will thus become a living collective testament to their former presence.

Purbeck landscape has inspired many writers and artists over the years – Kingsley, Hardy, Betjeman have captured Purbeck in prose and verse. Now it’s your turn!

Local neighbour fly-past! Amazing what wildlife we we see here at Burngate.
29/05/2026

Local neighbour fly-past! Amazing what wildlife we we see here at Burngate.

John Hegley will be performing TONIGHT at the Square and Compass (29th May) FROM 6-9pm, As part of our 'Expressing the E...
29/05/2026

John Hegley will be performing TONIGHT at the Square and Compass (29th May) FROM 6-9pm, As part of our 'Expressing the Earth' programme of events for Purbeck Art Weeks. Free event, collection taken for the poet.

As a comedian and poet, he is a regular sell-out at The Edinburgh Festival. He has performed at the Montreal Comedy Festival, the USA Comedy Festival in Aspen, with Ulrika Jonsson & Anita Dobson in The Pyjama Game and on BBC R4's Hearing With Hegley.

John Hegley is widely known as one of the country's most innovative comic poets with several best-selling volumes of poetry to his name.

Join the Burngate team at Worth Village Hall for a special screening of "Expressing the Earth" at 7pm on June 4th. Tick...
28/05/2026

Join the Burngate team at Worth Village Hall for a special screening of "Expressing the Earth" at 7pm on June 4th. Tickets are £10 (collectable on the door). Places can be booked by emailing [email protected]

Link to trailer here: vimeo.com/1072283944

Along rugged coastlines, through ancient forest and into the geological bedrock of Scotland’s wild places, we journey in search of geopoetics, a unique way of perceiving and expressing the world. Founder, poet-thinker Kenneth White, is revealed through his poetry and thoughts. A moving glimpse into liminal places where geology, art and poetry meet, and inner worlds are reflected in the landscape.

27/05/2026

Carving the Landscape (2 day course) starts this week: 30th and 31st May from 10 - 4pm each day at Burngate. Sign up on our website, link in the bio. Create your own expressive interpretation of the stunning Purbeck landscape carved from Portland Stone, to take home with you at the end of the course. Your carving could depict hills, rock formations, fossils, plants or local landmarks such as Old Harry Rocks and Corfe Castle.

This new course coincides with PAW and our theme for the week "Geopoetics: Expressing the Earth", Other activities include guided walks, creative writing, poetry performaces, talks and a film.

26/05/2026

Fancy having a go at stone carving during Purbeck Art Weeks? There are three lessons you can come to or if you have carved before just come up and join the community carve:

Thurs 28th May (2-4pm) - Have a Go (£45)
Thurs 4th June (2-4pm) - Have a Go (£45)
6th June (10 - 4pm) - Introduction to Stone Carving (£100)
30th May - 7th June - Join the community of stone carvers in residence (Free)

Click on the web link in our bio to book. We look forward to seeing you.


Address

Kingston Road, Langton Matravers
Swanage
BH193BE

Telephone

01929 439405

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