The Cecil Higgins Gallery has on permanent display the tapestry Bunyan's Dream comprising eighty individual panels. These when brought together,  show John Bunyan in prison awakening from his dream on which the story of the Pilgrim’s Progress is based. The Trustees of the gallery commissioned the work from Edward Bawden in 1977 to commemorate the tercentenary of John Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress and Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee. The work was carried out by  needlewomen from the Bedfordshire Music and Arts Club.
 

Cartoons by Edward Bawden for the individual panels