Four centuries of Wells history will be brought together for a special one-day exhibition at Wells & Mendip Museum later this month.

The exhibition, being held on Tuesday, 22 September, will feature exhibits and documents exploring around 400 years of the city's almshouse history. It will be open from 11 am until 4 pm, with tea and coffee available during the day.

The display has been curated by Jean MacCormack and Dr Adrian Webb, with help from Jonathan Chivers of Wells City Archives.

Alongside the historic material, visitors will also be able to see a newly published book written by Jean MacCormack and Dr Adrian Webb, A History of Llewellyn's Almshouse, Wells.

The authors acknowledge help given to the project by Dr Julia Wood, Tony Scrase and Jonathan Chivers.

Wells has a long almshouse tradition, with historic buildings in the city continuing to form a visible part of its heritage.

The exhibition follows another opportunity to step inside some of those buildings, with the City of Wells Almshouses opening to the public on Saturday, 19 September, from 11 am until 4 pm.

That open day will include Llewellyn's Almshouses on Priest Row and the Bubwith properties behind St Cuthbert's churchyard, giving visitors a chance to see parts of the city's almshouse heritage at close quarters before the museum exhibition three days later.

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The museum exhibition on 22 September is intended to bring together the documentary side of that story, using surviving records and exhibits to trace the development of almshouses in Wells across roughly four centuries.

It will run for one day only, from 11 am to 4 pm at Wells & Mendip Museum.

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Four hundred years of Wells almshouse history, all in one room and for one day only. Wells & Mendip Museum is bringing together documents and exhibits on 22 September — with the real buildings themselves opening a few days beforehand.