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St Mawes Castle
Wedding Venue
St Mawes Castle
St Mawes
Cornwall
TR2 3AA
England
tel:- 01326 310106
fax:- 01326 319911
web address:- www.english-heritage.org.uk
e-mail:-
St Mawes Castle :-
Venue type - Historic Building
Other title: Castle
Number of function rooms available for weddings: Exclusive hire, only one wedding at a time, use of whole castle permitted.
Function room names and capacities: Exclusive use and photographs can be taken anywhere inside or outside. The rooms and outside areas licensed for civil ceremonies are:
Pillar Parlour maximum 30 people
Star Chamber maximum 50 guests
Stables maximum 100 guests
Little Castle courtyard 100 guests
Riding House maximum 200 people
Venus Fountain Garden 200 people
For the evening:
Stables up to 75 people
Riding House up to 175 people
Marquee area up to 550 people
Garden suitable for marquees: Outer Court
Local accommodation: Bolsover Castle is close to J29a of the M1, and only 6 miles from Chesterfield, so there are plenty of hotels, B&Bs etc in the area.
Choice of wedding breakfast menus - YesEntertainment Available - Yes
Dedicated wedding planner available - Yes
Licensed for Civil Ceremonies - Yes
Dance Floor - Yes
Evening Reception Facilities - Yes
Car Parking Facilities - Yes
Entertainment is available: Any entertainment is possible
Wedding services provided: At Bolsover Castle, we offer a professional hospitality service to ensure the event is a success. This means that as well as offering expert support to help run the event, we have carefully chosen suppliers, all of whom are dedicated to providing high standards of service
Gardens or outside locations suitable for wedding photography: Photographs can take place anywhere inside or outside, so amazing photographic opportunities with wonderful views, arches, ruins, a walled garden, 17th Century buildings, etc.
Suitable locations inside the venue for wedding photography: Stunning photograph opportunities in panelled historic rooms, rooms with wall and ceiling paintings, massive beams, arches, stairways, pillars, gilded ceilings and walls, etc.
Local picturesque areas suitable for wedding photography: There is no need to go elsewhere for photographs, we have plenty on site.
Venue special features: The fairytale Little Castle, built by Sir Charles Cavendish in 1612, with its high walls, towers and turrets this picture-book building is like a medieval castle in miniature. A stone staircase leads to its stunning Jacobean interiors. At its heart lies the Star Chamber where couples can exchange their vows witnessed by up to 50 guests. With an elaborate carved fireplace, ornate wooden panelling and magnificent blue ceiling with stars gilded in gold leaf, it is an exquisite setting. The atmospheric Pillar Parlour, where King Charles I was entertained by a masque written by Ben Jonson entitled 'Loves Welcome to Bolsvoer' is also within the Little Castle, and can seat 30 guests.
For larger ceremonies, couples can choose either the former Stables or the Riding House which has a magnificent oak beam roof. Built by Sir Charles’s son William in 1630, the Riding House was once used by Sir William to train his horses in the art of manege, a kind of ballet for horses, where they elegantly circled, leapt and knelt. The viewing gallery at one end was inserted when Sir William grew too old to ride, so that he could sit and look down on his horses as they performed. Able to hold 200 guests for a ceremony, this large and unusual room looks spectacular when styled for an evening dinner dance, when it can host 175 guests.
The stables, once divided into stalls to house Sir William’s horses is light and airy with large wooden double doors high windows and exposed wooden beams and can host 100 guests for a ceremony.
Larger receptions for several hundred guests can also be staged in marquees within the castle’s outer courtyard.
In fine weather, drinks receptions can be held beside the remains of the Terrace Range, built by Sir William for his guests. Monolithic columns carved from single blocks of stone provide a majestic entrance to the Terrace Range which has panoramic views. This makes an impressive and photogenic setting and gives guests the opportunity to admire wonderful views.
Venue History: Love palace
Love has almost always been in the air at Bolsover Castle. Although the Little Castle was started on the site of a medieval castle, built after the Norman conquest, by Sir Charles Cavendish, it was completed and added to by his son Sir William, a dashing cavalier. Far from being a fortress, he built it to indulge his two great passions – women and horses!
This 17th-century love palace was originally intended by Sir Charles to be a retreat to an imaginary golden age of chivalry and pleasure. But the finishing touches added by his son included symbolic and erotic wall paintings, a charming garden for lovers complete with bowers, secluded seats and Venus fountain – and of course his impressive Riding Range for his horses – which became one of the most famous in Europe.
The garden which has been lovingly restored by English Heritage, is still perfect for lovers’ trysts today and makes a wonderfully romantic backdrop for photographs. Once called the Garden of Love, overseen by Venus the Goddess of Love - a beautiful walled garden with scented flowers.
Recommended by Photographer:- Mel Bonfield
Wedding Trivia:
RING FINGER
In 3rd. century Greece the ring finger was the index finger. In India it was the thumb. The western tradition began with the Greeks who believed that the third finger was connected directly to the heart by a route that was called "the vein of love."
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