Tour of this historic palace with wonderful Festive Fayre in the Great Fountain Garden
Friday 4th December 2026
We are delighted to offer a festive visit to Hampton Court Palace to include a specialised guided tour of the art and architecture showcasing two distinct eras of English history, the red-brick Tudor world of Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII into the elegant, stone-carved Baroque aesthetic designed by Sir Christopher Wren for William III and Mary II.
Our tour will include The Chapel Royal and the masterpieces of the Royal Collection in the Mantegna Gallery and Cumberland Art Gallery. The Palace itself will be decorated as The Winter Palace for the Christmas season!
The Tour will take one and a half hours and then you are free to explore more of this wonderful palace and experience the delights of the Festive Fayre taking place in the Great Fountain Garden. This is no ordinary Christmas Fayre with a food lover’s wonderland featuring over 100 independent artisans offering high-quality gourmet food and a huge selection of artisan gifts – perfect for Christmas shopping.
There is a café within the Palace offering a variety of hot and cold food, tea and coffee and a Street Food Village within the Festive Fayre.
Click on the buttons below to go to the relevant Hampton Court website pages:
FIRST RESERVE YOUR PLACE by emailing: visits@theartssocietycorinium.org to check availability. When we inform you that your place is reserved, please make payment by one of the methods below:
OR – by cheque payable to The Arts Society Corinium
Post to:
The Treasurer, David Taylor (HCP), 1 Oaklands, Cirencester, GL7 1FA
YOUR PLACE WILL ONLY BE CONFIRMED ONCE PAYMENT HAS BEEN RECEIVED – you will receive an email to this
effect.
It is advisable that you complete and bring with you an “In Case of Emergency” (ICE) form on the day. The ICE form can be downloaded by clicking on the button below. The form is a note of your essential medical details in the unfortunate event of an accident, or illness during the visit, when it would be passed to paramedics. It is not read by any of our Society.