Wedding & Event Venues
Here on the Fonthill Estate we have several stunning and unique venues available to hire for weddings, events, workshops, meetings and more. Each has it’s own persona and offers something different, but all give you exclusive use, privacy and over four days access, so why not make a weekend of it!
For weddings and large the venues are hired unfurnished, allowing you to choose your own suppliers and control your budget. We have an amazing team of suppliers who we can recommend and we’re here to help you plan your big day.
The Fonthill Estate is situated just outside the charming town of Tisbury in Wiltshire and the venues are located on different parts of our beautiful Estate. A location map can be found on our Contact page.
Bake Barn is an impressive stone barn and is extremely popular with wedding couples. With the choice of indoor and outside ceremony areas, a grand main hall and lots of outdoor space for games, glamping and parking it offers it all! It’s easily accessible off the A303, but completely private and with no noise or time restrictions you can party into the early hours!
Deer Park Barn is a little gem and a mini version of Bake Barn but set within rolling parkland with it’s grand old oaks and foraging deer. The barn and pretty stonewalled courtyard is ideal for intimate weddings and smaller parties. For large events, a marquee can be erected on the spacious lawn where you can dine and dance looking out onto the Fonthill lake.
Offering the choice of a woodland or lakeside ceremony location, Quarry Wood is quite unique! The venue consists of mature woodland for glamping and parking and a beautiful oval lawn looking down onto the Fonthill Lake – just the perfect setting on which to erect a marquee for dinner and dancing. Surrounded by grottos and with a secret outside dancing area, let your imagination run wild.
“Ideal blank canvas”
Bake Barn is absolutely beautiful and was the ideal blank canvas for us to organise our day as the spaces are so flexible. We had both our ceremony and reception on site, as it was large enough for both a marquee outdoors and an indoor sit-down meal; Oonagh and the Fonthill Estate team were so helpful when we were booking in suppliers and getting everything organised. We used the Fonthill Arch and countryside by the Estate’s lake for our photos – the Barn’s location is fantastic. We loved celebrating our day there, it was the perfect venue for us.
Esme and Rob Grazebrook – July 2023
Amazing venue, lovely team
When we were booking our wedding back in 2020, we were struggling to find a venue that would allow us to make the day our own. Bake Barn was the only venue that was truly happy to let us do what we wanted!
One of the joys of the barn is its natural beauty- it doesn’t need a lot of decoration. We went with a few different arrangements that were moved around. With a few candles at dinner and the lovely up-lighting in the barn and huge chandelier, it really came to life in the evening. We set up the barn for dinner and used the outside courtyard for the ceremony and drinks reception. We hired lounge furniture for the side barns where we also added a bar, which worked really well. We loved being able to camp on site and use the place “as our own” until Monday, so we had a long walk and pizza van on Sunday. In short, book this venue!
Emma Joyce and James Clay – June 2022
Perfect dry-hire venue!
Bake Barn was absolutely perfect for our wedding day! The whole team were incredibly responsive throughout, and provided really helpful information about the venue, surrounding area, and potential suppliers (many of whom we ended up using). The venue is perfectly set up as a dry-hire space – you’re totally free to do what you want with the building and area, but it also has a full industrial kitchen, high quality bathrooms, a speaker system etc so you don’t have to bring it absolutely everything. The barn itself is finished to such a high standard, and is set in the most beautiful countryside with lots of lovely accommodation options nearby. Honestly cannot recommend it highly enough!
Amy and Dylan – June 2022
THE CRICKET PAVILION
The Cricket Pavilion is a small, attractive space with a bar counter and covered veranda. It is available for hire for small private functions such as meetings, parties, exhibitions, cricket matches, etc. Hire is by arrangement with the cricket club. Outside the cricket season (April to September), a marquee can be erected on a designated area for larger events such as wedding receptions. The cricket pavilion has no cooking facilities and limited furniture and parking.
THE READING ROOM
The Reading Room is the equivalent to our ‘village hall’ and is available for hire for meetings, parties, exhibitions, exercise classes, workshops and other events. There is a stage area, kitchen, loos, good wifi, a screen to connect your laptop to and some parking on site.
FILMING AT FONTHILL
The Estate offers extensive gardens and parkland, woodland, rivers, lakes, forests, architectural features and Fonthill Village for filming. It has been featured in the 2000 film ‘Chocolat’ featuring Johnny Depp, Juliette Binoche & Judi Dench, the 2012 drama ‘Cheerful Weather for The Wedding’ featuring Felicity Jones and Luke Treadaway and the classic 1975 film ‘Barry Lyndon’ starring Ryan O’Neal. We are also happy to welcome local university students to film projects/dissertations here on the Estate.