The Hall sits alongside GoodRoots, our onsite Café; a unique, quirky, casual but comfortable, family friendly licensed café serving wonderful fresh, simple food, delicious fair-trade coffee and teas, alongside a very local deli, with an excellent bakery section featuring artisan breads and cakes, regional beers, wines and spirits.

Along Severn Street from GoodRoots is the hub of Royal Porcelain Works; The Reception & Shop is your first point of call for everything you need to know about the site.Next to this is Piston Distillery; vibrant and busy with the sounds and smells of twenty-first century, hand-crafted industry where Piston Gin is distilled.

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Above Piston is The Gallery; a flexible exhibition space, that can be used for larger meetings and presentations, when adjoining The Studio; a space designed for meetings, workshops and classroom activities.

The historic Trade Showroom has been restored to its former glory, named the Samuel Driver White Suite, its a space dedicated to providing facilities and opportunity for local artists and craftspeople to showcase their work and demonstrate their skills, in an open flexible space that can be divided into individual 'pods' and studios.

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The new offering will join Piston Gin Distillery and Shop and will introduce a new reception for Royal Porcelain Works development and an independent retail unit which will enable artists working on-site to sell their wares. The original painting house will be made into an incubation space for start-up creative businesses and artists, creating a buzzing artist community.

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The ground floor and first floor workshop spaces will be available either as single spaces or shared collective working spaces for artists, ceramicists, potters, photographers and alike. So important to the region’s cultural identity, The Royal Porcelain Works raises the profile of the fantastic level of artistry and craftsmanship that exists locally, helping ensure these skills remain relevant to future generations and those traditions for which the city of Worcester is renowned live on.

The new offering will join Piston Gin Distillery and Shop and will introduce a new reception for Royal Porcelain Works development and an independent retail unit which will enable artists working on-site to sell their wares. The original painting house will be made into an incubation space for start-up creative businesses and artists, creating a buzzing artist community.

The ground floor and first floor workshop spaces will be available either as single spaces or shared collective working spaces for artists, ceramicists, potters, photographers and alike. So important to the region’s cultural identity, The Royal Porcelain Works raises the profile of the fantastic level of artistry and craftsmanship that exists locally, helping ensure these skills remain relevant to future generations and those traditions for which the city of Worcester is renowned live on.

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Our History

The county of Worcestershire and fine ceramics have been inextricably linked for more than 250 years. Beside the River Severn in Worcester, Dr John Wall invented a new method of creating porcelain and established the Warmstry Works.



The origins of the Royal Worcester Porcelain Company can be traced back to the formation of the Worcester Tonquin Manufacture, a precursor company formed in 1751. Together with ‘Derby Porcelain’, later known as the Royal Crown Derby Porcelain Company which was founded at around the same time, the enterprise was one of the two earliest porcelain manufacturers in Britain, initially producing ‘soft-paste’ porcelain. ‘Hardpaste’ porcelain, pioneered in Europe by von Tschirnhaus and Böttger at Meissen in the early 18th century, was not in general production in Britain until the 1770s.