Thicket Priory, an exclusive-use wedding venue near York. Come and find your fairytale
Welcome to Thicket Priory, one of the UK’s finest venuesWelcome to Thicket Priory, one of the UK’s finest venues
Kat & Sush by the lake, 21 July 2025
A secret, kept for you.
For half a century the house belonged to an order of nuns and was closed to the world. Now it opens to one couple at a time: every room, the chapel and all 18 acres, with nobody else checking in after you.
Marry, dance, and wake up here.
Say your vows in the Morning Room, the chapel or under the trees. Dance beneath the Ballroom chandeliers. Then climb the stairs to bed, with everyone you love asleep under the same roof.
Marry
down the aisle in the Morning Room
Dance
the first dance, in the Ballroom
Wake up
the morning of, by the window
To those with the key
Concealed doors in two of the bedrooms still lead up into the clock tower. For your weekend, every key in the house is yours.
Georgie & Mark in the orchard, at golden hourExplore the bedrooms
The clock keeps time. You needn’t.
Benjamin Vulliamy’s clock has looked out from the tower, east, north and west, since 1847. For your wedding, let it: nobody here is counting.
Meg & Phil confetti on the steps
Every wedding here is as unique as you are.
Licensed for ceremonies indoors and out, with a private chapel for blessings, a Ballroom for dancing and 18 acres to wander between.
Meg & Phil their first dance, in the Ballroom
Where to say it.
Licensed for civil ceremonies and partnerships, inside and at the bandstand. Ceremony locations
The Morning RoomVows beside the carved stone fireplace, with your guests all around you.
The ChapelFor blessings and celebrant-led ceremonies, beneath nineteenth-century glass.
The gardensCelebrant-led, out on the lawns among the trees.
The BandstandIn the orchard, weather permitting (after all, this is the UK!).
A myriad of mysterious stairs and doors.
Make your entrance down the grand staircase and steal away to the candlelit stairs once the dancing starts. In between: a fairy door in the trunk of a tree, an egg-shaped ice‑house in the woods and pantries stocked with Yorkshire Tea, open day and night.
Six angels to play you down the aisle.
The chapel’s nineteenth-century glass holds six angels, each playing an instrument, and their light falls across every blessing here.
During the Second World War, York Minster’s Great East Window was hidden at Thicket; fragments found since are set into the bedroom windows.
Something borrowed.
Every bedroom carries the name of someone who once lived here or loved the house (Theodosia the naughty nun is our particular favourite!). For one weekend, all 35 are yours, for up to 72 of the people you love, with nine Garden Rooms on the ground floor and fully accessible.
- Theodosia’s
- Sister Anne’s
- Sister Bridget’s
- Miss Nicolette’s
- Nanny’s
- Uncle Monty’s
- Lady Anna’s
- Lady Caroline’s
- Lady Isobel’s
- Cousin Clara’s
- Master Xander’s
- Beatrice’s
- Edward’s
- Hilda’s
- Saltmarsche’s
- The Cromwell Room
- The Grace Suite
- The Mervyn Suite
- The Buckingham Suite
- The Vavasour Suite
- The Vulliamy Suite
- Rapunzel’s
- Garden Rooms I–IX
The house, in film
Film by Hello There Films
In their words
“From the moment we drove up the driveway to Thicket Priory on our first visit, we knew we had found something truly special. Thicket is a wedding venue like no other – a stunningly beautiful location that also feels like home.”
“The building and the grounds are so stunning – they strike the perfect balance between grandiose beauty and home comforts. However, we have to say that it was all the little magical details that really made it for us.”
“Thicket Priory is a venue like no other – it is simply stunning… The ability to have the venue for the full 2 nights enabled us to have a full weekend of fun… It is such an incredible space and really did feel like our home.”
Come and find it for yourself.
Viewings are one-to-one and by appointment. Tell us your date and we’ll reply within 24 hours, by email or WhatsApp.
- York, 20 minutes by car.
- London to York, 1 hr 48 mins by train, then a 15-minute taxi.
- Helicopters can land by arrangement.