Baroque palace and UNESCO World Heritage Site at Woodstock, Oxfordshire
Blenheim Palace is a Baroque palace by Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor at Woodstock, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in more than 2,000 acres of parkland, hiring its State Rooms and a South Lawn marquee of up to 2,000.
Blenheim Palace is an English Baroque palace designed by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It stands at Woodstock in Oxfordshire, the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill and the seat of the Dukes of Marlborough, in more than 2,000 acres of parkland landscaped by Capability Brown, with a great lake and the Grand Bridge.
The State Rooms are hired for weddings. Civil ceremonies are held in the Orangery or the gilded Marlborough Room, and banquets of up to around 250 are served in the Great Hall, beneath a 67ft painted ceiling, or along the nearly 150ft Long Library. Formal gardens, the Water Terraces and the Italian Garden offer space for drinks, and a marquee on the South Lawn can take up to 2,000. Catering is from an approved supplier list. Guests stay at the estate Retreat Lodges or hotels in Woodstock, with Oxford about fifteen minutes away.
Blenheim Palace
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Blenheim was designed by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor as a masterpiece of English Baroque. It is the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill and the seat of the Dukes of Marlborough, set in more than 2,000 acres landscaped by Capability Brown.
Civil ceremonies take place in the Orangery, which opens to the gardens, or in the gilded Marlborough Room, with the formal gardens and Water Terraces beyond.
The wedding breakfast can be held beneath the 67ft painted ceiling of the Great Hall, along the Long Library, or in the Orangery, with long tables under chandeliers and Champagne on the Water Terraces.
On the South Lawn, beneath the walls of the Palace, marquees accommodate celebrations of up to 2,000 guests.
A monumental English Baroque palace by Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor, a World Heritage Site and birthplace of Churchill.
The PalaceThe Great Hall, the Saloon, the Long Library and the Orangery, lit and dressed for a grand English wedding.
The Rooms
Capability Brown parkland with a lake, the Grand Bridge, the formal gardens and the Water Terraces.
The GroundsMarquees for celebrations up to 2,000, beneath the walls of the Palace, in the heart of Oxfordshire.
The Setting
The Orangery, opening to the formal gardens, licensed for civil ceremonies and set for wedding breakfasts up to 200 and receptions up to 300, light and grand at the heart of the Palace.
EnquireThe Long Library, at nearly 150ft one of the longest rooms in any British stately home, lined with books and lit for an evening reception or a banquet up to 250.
EnquireThe Marlborough Room, for intimate dinners and civil ceremonies, gilded and candlelit, a jewel-box within the grandeur of the Palace.
EnquireThe grand State Rooms of the Palace are hired for the wedding, with the formal gardens.
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Blenheim Palace stands at Woodstock in Oxfordshire, in more than 2,000 acres of Capability Brown parkland with a great lake and the Grand Bridge. It is about fifteen minutes from Oxford, an hour from London and London Heathrow, and within easy reach of Birmingham, so guests reach one of England's grandest venues effortlessly, with the estate Retreat Lodges and Woodstock hotels on the doorstep.
Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1PP, England
Hanborough (Great Western Railway) is the nearest station, about 1.3 miles from the venue in a straight line.
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At Woodstock in Oxfordshire, in more than 2,000 acres of parkland with a lake and the Grand Bridge, about fifteen minutes from Oxford and an hour from London.
Up to around 250 seated in the State Rooms such as the Great Hall or the Long Library, up to 200 in the Orangery, and up to 2,000 in a marquee on the South Lawn.
In the Orangery, which opens to the gardens, and in the gilded Marlborough Room.
Catering is from an approved supplier list, with full dietary and cultural catering possible.
The Palace is not a hotel. Guests stay at the estate Blenheim Retreat Lodges and at hotels in Woodstock and around Oxfordshire.
Yes: formal gardens, the Water Terraces, the Italian Garden, a lake and the South Lawn for marquees.
At nearly 150ft it is one of the longest rooms in any British stately home, and it takes banquets of up to 250.
Venue hire is indicative from around £9,000, quoted around the date, the rooms and your plans.
Yes. Approved caterers provide full dietary and cultural catering, and the South Lawn marquee takes up to 2,000.
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