Venues in Wiltshire; hire a String Quartet

This is a list of venues where you may want to hire one of our String Quartets for your Wedding, Party or Dinner. Our bands have already performed at many of these venues.

Corsham

A small town on the southernmost point of the Cotswolds. The Flemish-gabled cottages on the cobbled street and the honey-coloured, baroque-pedimented Hungerford almshouses all derive from its wealthy past as a weaving village. The school adjoining the alms-houses has its original seating arrangement, with the master's pulpit desk of 1668 still in place.

Corsham Court, an Elizabethan mansion of 1582, has an impressive pedi-mented gateway. Capability Brown, the famous 18th-century landscape gardener, laid out the fine park with its elm avenue. The state rooms are filled with old masters and superb furniture.

String Quartets at Abbey House, Malmesbury, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Angel Hotel, Chippenham, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Blunsdon House Hotel, Swindon, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Bowood Golf & Country Club, Calne, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Bradley House, Maiden Bradley, Warminster, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Chippenham Town Council, Chippenham, Wiltshire

Great ChalfieJd Manor

A moated, late Gothic house with Tudor overtones, 2^ miles north-east of Bradford-on-Avon. The house is approached through an arched gateway, and its oriel windows reflect the sunlight on to the courtyard's polished yellow-grey stones. The great hall and screen remain as Thomas Tropenell built them in 1480. The house is owned by the National Trust.

 

String Quartets at Chiseldon House Hotel, nr Swindon, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Civic Offices, Swindon, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Coach House, The, Avebury, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Cricklade Hotel & Country Club, Cricklade, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Crudwell Court Hotel, nr Malmesbury, Wiltshire

String Quartets at George Hotel, Amesbury, Wiltshire

Holt

Here, set in beautifully laid-out gardens, is The Courts, where local weavers, until the end of the i8th century, came to settle their disputes by arbitration. The elaborate facade dates from c. 1700, though the mansion itself is in the neo-Gothic style of a century later.

 

String Quartets at Goddard Arms Hotel, Swindon, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Grasmere House Hotel, Salisbury, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Grittleton House, Chippenham, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Grittleton House, Chippenham, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Guildhall, The, Salisbury, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Guyers House, Corsham, Wiltshire

Amesbury

A town set in a bend of the River Avon, which is crossed by a five-arched bridge built in Palladian style. Amesbury Abbey is built on the site of the priory to which, according to Thomas Mallory, Queen Guinevere withdrew when she heard of King Arthur's death. West of the Avon, on the border of Amesbury Park, are the outlines of prehistoric earthworks which are named Vespasian's Camp after the Roman Emperor, but date from a much earlier age. The large military and R.A.F. camps near Ames-bury include the important experimental flying base of Boscombe Down, where new aircraft are tested.

 

String Quartets at Hamptworth, Salisbury, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Hilton National Swindon, Swindon, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Lackham House, Chippenham, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Luckington Court, Chippenham, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Lucknam Park Hotel, Colernie, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Manor House Golf Club, Chippenham, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Manor House Hotel, & Golf Club, The, Near Bath, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Marlborough Golf Club, Marlborough, Wiltshire

Codford St Mary

A typical small village of the Wylye Valley, on the edge of Salisbury Plain, joined by a single street to the even smaller village of Codford St Peter. The plain sweeps up behind the two villages towards the 6i7-ft prehistoric Codford Circle. Inside Codford St Peter's church is an unusually beautiful piece of stone carving, in the form of part of a cross showing the figure of a man dressed in a short, draped tunic and performing a ritual dance.

 

String Quartets at Marsh Farm Hotel, Swindon, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Milford Hall Hotel, Salisbury, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Newhouse, Salisbury, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Old Bell, The, Malmesbury, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Old Lane Public House, Chippenham, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Old Wardour Castle, near Tisbury, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Pear Tree at Purton, Swindon, Wiltshire

Devizes

A pleasant old market town with some fine Georgian houses and a castle that stands on the site of a Norman stronghold built by the Bishop of Salisbury. On the market cross is an inscription telling the salutary story of the sudden death in 1753 of one Ruth Pierce, after cheating at the local market. The museum has collections of finds from Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age sites in Wiltshire.

 

String Quartets at Pheasant, The, Chippenham, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Post House Hotel, Swindon, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Rollestone Manor, Shrewton, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Royal Oak, The, Marlborough, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Rudloe Hall, nr Corsham, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Shaw Ridge, De Vere Venues, Swindon, Wiltshire

Longleat House

One of Britain's great Elizabethan mansions, begun in 1568 for Sir John Thynne, an ancestor of the Marquess of Bath who owns it today. The lions roaming among visitors' cars in the park draw the weekend crowds; and the house itself—symmetrical except for its great hall at one side—has a rich collection of furniture, paintings and books. Near the park, which was landscaped by-Capability Brown, is Heaven's Gate, a

half-mile walk through woodlands bright with azaleas and rhododendrons in June, to a superb viewpoint looking down on Longleat in the valley below. In the village of Horningsham, i mile south, is a thatched Nonconformist chapel—one of the oldest in Britain— built in 1568 by the Scottish builders who worked on Longleat.

 

String Quartets at Sign of the Angel, Chippenham, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Stanton House Hotel, Swindon, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Stanton Manor, Chippenham, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Swindon Marriott Hotel, Swindon, Wiltshire

String Quartets at The Radstock Hotel, Radstock, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Thistle Hotel, Swindon, Wiltshire

Pewsey

William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides published in 1830, was attracted to the Vale of Pewsey's 'villages, hamlets, large farms, towers, steeples, fields, meadows, orchards and very fine timber trees scattered over the valley'. Little has changed since Cobbett's day in the green valley of which Pewsey is the centre. Pewsey has a mixture of Wiltshire thatched cottages and Georgian houses, and at the crossroads a statue of King Alfred looks across the River Avon. Attractive villages surround the town, arid prehistoric barrows line the high southern escarpment of the Marl-borough Downs to the north.

 

String Quartets at Town Hall, Calne, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Town Hall, Marlborough, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Trafalgar Park, Salisbury, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Wellington Barn, Calne, Wiltshire

String Quartets at Whatley Manor, Malmesbury, Wiltshire