Venues in Warwickshire; hire a String Quartet
Charlecote
A village with pleasing old cottages. The church was
rebuilt in 1851, and in it can be found the Lucy family monuments, taken
from the old church, the oldest dating from 1600.
String Quartets at 007 Bond Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Alveston Manor, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Ansty Hall Hotel, nr Coventry, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Arden Hotel, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Ardencote Manor Hotel, Warwick, Warwickshire
An avenue of limes leads to Charlecote Park, a massive Elizabethan mansion set in fine, open parkland where deer roam. It was here that Shakespeare is said to have been caught poaching deer by the irate landlord.' The story goes that he was birched and, in revenge, wrote lampoons on Sir Thomas Lucy, but when the authorship was discovered, fled to London, and so began his career. Charlecote, built by Sir Thomas Lucy in 1558, is now owned by the National Trust.
String Quartets at Aylesbury House Hotel, Hockley Heath, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Billesley Manor Hotel, Alcester, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Edgbaston, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Brandon Hall Hotel, Brandon, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Brownsover Hall Hotel, Rugby, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Chesford Grange Hotel, Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Farm buildings opposite the entrance to Charlecote Park have been converted into a restaurant, which has a walled garden where waterfowl, budgerigars and other birds are kept. Outside is a collection of historic carriages, including a phaeton that once belonged to Alphonso XII, the last king of Spain. Horse and carriage rides are available.
String Quartets at Clarendon House Hotel, Kenilworth, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Compton Verney, Warwickshire, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Coombe Abbey, Binley, Coventry, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Coughton Court, Alcester, Warwickshire
String Quartets at De Montfort Hotel, Kenilworth, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Draycote Hotel and Whitefields Golf Course, Thurlaston, nr Rugby, Warwickshire
Compton Wynyates
One of the most beautiful houses in England—a superb example of Tudor architecture, little altered in later centuries. The stone and weathered brick of the exterior stand out against the dark green of the yews and hedges, which are tailored into neat, formal shapes. Behind the house, which has corkscrew Tudor chimneys, undulating countryside stretches away to the horizon. The name Compton recalls the family who built this house between 1480 and 1528. 'Wynyates' is Old English for 'valley through which the wind blows'.
String Quartets at Dunchurch Park, Dunchurch, Rugby, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Eathorpe Park Hotel, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Ettington Park Hotel, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Ettington Park Hotel, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Globe Hotel, Warwick, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Golden Lion Hotel, Rugby, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Grimstock Country House Hotel, Birmingham, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Haseley House Hotel, nr Hatton, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Henley Hotel, Henley in Arden, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Holiday Inn Coventry, Coventry, Warwickshire
The house was largely built of material salvaged by a member of the Compton family from the ruins of Fulbrook Castle, near Warwick. It contains a banqueting hall with a minstrels' gallery and a priest's hiding hole, skilfully concealed. An escape route used to lead from the hole out to the moat. But the house was captured by Cromwell's troops and returned to the Royalist Compton family on condition that the escape route was permanently blocked up.
String Quartets at Holiday Inn Leamington Spa - Warwick, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Honiley Court Hotel, Honiley, Nr Warwick, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Kenilworth Castle, Kenilworth, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Lea Marston Hotel, Lea Marston, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Leamington Spa Hotel & Bistro, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Malory Court Hotel, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Nuthurst Grange Hotel, Hockley Heath, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Quality Hotel Warwick, Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Edge Hill
Magnificent beech trees line the roac running along the top of the ridge, at thi foot of which the first major battle o the Civil War took place in 1642. Thi castellated Edge Hill Tower, now par of the local inn, The Castle, was built a a folly by Sanderson Miller, a local squir-and architect in the i8th century. Ther is a fine view from the top of the tower.
Farnborough Hall, built in Italianat style, lies in a hollow on the other side a the valley and is owned by the Nations Trust. The principal rooms contai: Italian paintings and sculptures, an-look out across an artificial lake to Edf Hill. The best view of the tree-line-ridge, however, is obtained from the to of a landscaped terrace which has t»-temples and an obelisk.
String Quartets at Ragley Hall, Alcester, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Ramada Hotel Warwick, Kenilworth, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Rugby Grosvenor Hotel, Rugby, Warwickshire
String Quartets at The Charlecote Pheasant, Charlecote, Warwickshire
String Quartets at The Chase Hotel, Nuneaton, Warwickshire
String Quartets at The Shakespeare Hotel, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
String Quartets at The Warwickshire, Warwick, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Thistle Hotel, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
Shottery
The village is only a mile west of thi centre of Stratford-upon-Avon, an. Anne Hathaway's cottage is clearl signposted. The 'cottage' is in fact thatched house of 12 rooms. The sectioin of the house furthest from the road was badly damaged by fire in late 1969, but it has now been fully restored. In the parlour is the uncomfortable narrow bench, or settle, where Shakespeare is thought to have courted his future bride. In spring and summer the typically English cottage gardens are ablaze with flowers, including some fine roses.
String Quartets at Weston Hall Hotel, nr Nuneaton, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Wethele Manor Farm, Westen-under-Wetherley, nr Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Windmill Village Hotel, Coventry, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Woodhouse Hotel, nr Rugby, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Woodside, Kenilworth, Warwickshire
String Quartets at Wroxall Abbey Estate, Wroxall, Warwickshire