The Ladywell Christmas Market at St Mary’s Church is back.
It is the same idea it has always been: local artisans, crafters and small businesses, in a joyful community Christmas event. Last year about a thousand people came through the door.
This year it is on Saturday December 5 2026, from 11am to 3pm, at the parish church on Lewisham High Street. Admission is free and everybody is welcome — you do not have to be a churchgoer, and nobody will ask.
The stalls go up between the pews and along the aisles, which means you do your Christmas shopping underneath eleven hundred years of other people’s.
There is a panettone stall under the memorial tablets and a candle stall directly below the Flaxman monument, which is the finest thing in the building and was carved in 1798.
It is warm, it is loud – with lots of music through the day from local bands, choirs and carols – and it smells of mulled wine. Bring a bag.