Venues in Worcestershire; hire a String Quartet

This is a list of venues where you may want to hire one of our String Quartets for your Wedding, Party or Dinner. Our bands have already performed at many of these venues.

Spetchley Park

A mansion with ornamental gardens standing in a 20-acrc park, containing red and fallow deer and a lake with many wildfowl. At Warndon, 3 miles north, is a church with a timbered tower and 15th-century font.

String Quartets at Abbey Hotel Golf & Country Club, Redditch, Worcestershire

String Quartets at Abbey Hotel, Malvern, Worcestershire

String Quartets at Bank House Hotel, nr Worcester, Worcestershire

String Quartets at Birtsmorton Court, Malvern, Worcestershire

Stourport-on-Severn

Until the late i8th century, when the canals were built, Stourport was a quiet village. Then it became a bustling commercial centre, the busiest inland port in the Midlands after Birmingham. Today the canals are used mainly for pleasure boats. For the tourist on foot there are some fine Georgian houses and an iron bridge built in 1870.

String Quartets at Burford House, nr Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire

String Quartets at Cadmore Lodge Hotel & Country Club, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire

String Quartets at County Hall, Worcester, Worcestershire

String Quartets at Diglis House Hotel, Worcester, Worcestershire

String Quartets at Dormy House Hotel, Broadway, Worcestershire

String Quartets at Dumbleton Hall Hotel, Evesham, Worcestershire

Tenbury Wells

A market town on the River Teme, surrounded by apple orchards and hop fields. A saline spring was discovered there in 1839 and a pump room followed, but spas were going out of fashion and its popularity did not last long. The town has half-timbered and Georgian houses and a Tudor inn, The Royal Oak. The 18th-century church has several effigies and tombs, and a 12th-century tower with Norman windows.

String Quartets at Elms Hotel, nr Worcester, Worcestershire

String Quartets at Foley Arms Hotel, Malvern, Worcestershire

String Quartets at Fownes Hotel, Worcester, Worcestershire

String Quartets at Granary Hotel and Restaurant, nr Kidderminster, Worcestershire

String Quartets at Hagley Hall, Hagley, Worcestershire

String Quartets at Hanbury Hall, Droitwich, Worcestershire

Worcester

This ancient city, dominated by its magnificent cathedral, stands on the banks of the River Severn in the centre of a rich, fertile plain. It is compact enough for wandering in, and is rich in old buildings, including Greyfriars, a timbered Franciscan house of 1480. The Dyson Perrins Museum has one of the world's finest collections of Worcester porcelain and bone china. The splendid iSth-century guildhall displays Civil War armour used at the Battle of Worcester in 1651.

The cathedral was started in 1084 and has a beautiful crypt ^built by Bishop Wulfstan; the choir stalls were added in the I3th century, and the tower in the 14th century. Among the many monuments is the tomb of King John, including an effigy of his face. One of the best views of the cathedral is from the modern Giffard Hotel in the cathedral precincts. The cathedral overlooks one of the most peaceful and beautiful cricket grounds in England.

The Methodist Church of St Andrew-has a very different setting, standing over a shopping arcade high above Pump Street. It was opened in 1968 and is reached by lift, or winding staircase beside a large, colourful stained-glass window in modern abstract style. All that remains of the 15th-century St Andrew's Church is a tower and spire 250 ft high above riverside gardens. Its local name is the Glover's Needle.

String Quartets at Hanbury Hall, Droitwich, Worcestershire

String Quartets at Holiday Inn Birmingham - Bromsgrove, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire

String Quartets at Hopton Court, Between Kidderminster and Ludlow, Worcestershire

String Quartets at Hundred House Hotel, Worcester, Worcestershire

String Quartets at Jarvis Heath Hotel, Bewdley, Worcestershire

Bredon

A large, attractive village on the River Avon, which has a 14th-century tithe barn. Bredon Hill, 3 miles north-east, rises to 961 ft; there is a castellated Gothic folly on its slopes, and the remnants of prehistoric and Roman earthworks on its summit. From the folly there is a magnificent view of the Avon winding its way round the hill through large meadows, which are commonland, and across the plain of Malvern.

String Quartets at Laughern Hill, Worcester, Worcestershire

String Quartets at Park Hall, Near Blakedown, Worcestershire

String Quartets at Quality Hotel, Redditch, Worcestershire

String Quartets at Ramada Kidderminster, Bewdley, Nr Kidderminster, Worcestershire

Malvern

Sheltered by hills from the west wind, Great Malvern is an underrated holiday spa and a splendid walking centre. Apart from its spa it has an active Festival Theatre, for long associated with performances of the plays ot Barrie and Shaw. It also has a heated outdoor swimming pool and lido, good boating and fishing, a nine-hole golf course, a concert hall, winter gardens and children's entertainments.

Above all, Malvern has the hills—not for mountain climbing, but for free, unfettered and untrammelled walking, easy enough for anyone who is reasonably fit. The hills provide magnificent views westwards towards Wales, and eastwards across garden-like, patchwork scenery to Warwickshire. The hills are protected by the Malvern Hills Conservators, who have planted trees and maintain the many footpaths.

String Quartets at Ramada Kidderminster, Bewdley, Nr Kidderminster, Worcestershire

String Quartets at Redditch Town Hall Civic Suite, Redditch, Worcestershire

String Quartets at Redhouse Barn, Stoke Prior, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire

String Quartets at Salford Hall Hotel, Evesham, Worcestershire

String Quartets at Stone Manor Hotel, nr Kidderminster, Worcestershire

Pershore

A market town, rich in well-kept Georgian buildings, set among woodlands and fruit farms where the delicious Pershore plums are grown. The town is reached from the east by crossing a 14th-century served tithe barns in the country. It was had been paid as taxes to the church six-arched bridge over the River Avon. Parts of Pershore Abbey, originally Norman, survived the Reformation to serve as the parish church. The magnificent lantern tower was built c. 1330. Near by is St Andrew's Church, which contains 13th to 15th-century work.

String Quartets at Stourport Manor Hotel, Stourport on Severn, Worcestershire

String Quartets at The Abbey, Great Malvern, Worcestershire

String Quartets at The Birche, Shesley Beauchamp, Worcestershire

String Quartets at The Boathouse, Upton Upon Severn, Worcestershire

String Quartets at The Curradine Barns, Shrawley, Worcestershire

Ripple

An attractive village grouped around a green. It has a half-timbered mid-16th-century manor house, iSth-century almshouses and some stocks. In the church are 15th-century misericords— carvings on seats in the choir stalls— depicting agricultural scenes.

String Quartets at The Curradine Barns, Shrawley, Worcestershire

String Quartets at The Elms, Abberley, Worcestershire

String Quartets at The Guild House, Broadway, Worcestershire

String Quartets at The Lygon Arms, Broadway, Worcestershire

String Quartets at The Nash, Kempsey, Worcestershire

String Quartets at The Vale, Bishampton, Pershore, Worcestershire

String Quartets at Wharton Park Golf Club, Bewdley, Worcestershire