LATEST: A special Christmas at Lodge Park

If you would like to have a truly special Christmas experience this year, the 17th-century Lodge Park near Northleach has something unique for you. Decorated with traditional greenery, this magnificent building will host a wonderful concert of Christmas Music, performed on historical instruments by the Galliarda Ensemble.

‘Lodge Park is a perfect place for enjoying a historical music concert: freshly dressed up for Christmas, the Lodge welcomes you with festive smells of traditional greenery and candles and the 15 foot tall Christmas tree. The Galliarda Ensemble take you back in time, as they play heavenly tunes on instruments one would see pictured in paintings with angels and cherubs… Everyone gets a chance to look around the Lodge, too, and enjoys mulled wine and mince pies – it is a really lovely festive atmosphere,’ says Sigute Barniskyte, acting Visitor Services Manager for the National Trust at Gloucestershire Countryside.

So get into the festive spirit by listening to beautiful tunes, and have a glass of mulled wine and mince pies at Lodge Park, on Saturday evening, 4th December at 7 o’clock. This could be a truly memorable Christmas gift for your loved ones, too.

Galliarda, ‘Merry Wassail’: Christmas music on historical instruments at Lodge Park,  near Aldsworth, Cheltenham, GL54 3PP.
Tickets price £18, including mulled wine and mince pies. Please book on 01451 844130.
Programme to include Spanish carols, Iberian Christmas Folk Songs, a Peruvian Christmas cantata, and Christmas pieces by Corelli, Telemann and Handel.

• Sara Stowe Soprano
• Wendy Hancock Recorder, Baroque Flute and Viol
• Richard MacKenzie  Baroque guitar and Theorbo
• Ian Gammie  Viola da Gamba

Tickets are £18 and include refreshments in the interval.
Bookings on 01451 844130.

Father Christmas will return to the Lodge again through the fireplace in the Great Room on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 December. Everyone who completes a Christmas trail will be rewarded with a prize! The halls will be decorated; mulled wine and mince pies laid out for everyone and the gift shop will be open for Christmas sales. Children can also make Christmas decorations to take home.
Lodge Park will open Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 December, 11am-4pm.
Normal admission applies, NT members free entry. £2/trail with a prize.

• Contact phone : 01451 844130
• Also see : Galliarda Ensemble at Lodge Park
• Also see : Father Christmas at Lodge Park

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