Leigh-Anne & Nathan
Are Getting Married
'The Night Before'
We sincerely hope our guests will join us for an evening reception the night before our special day. We will be able to enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks from 7pm in Wortley Halls beautiful Library to kick start the celebrations ahead of an early start the next morning!
‘The Big Day’
Included in the overnight stay is a hearty Full English at Wortley Halls own restaurant The Ruddy Duck, what better way to start the day!
The ceremony will begin at 12noon at St James Church, Ryhill, followed by a drinks reception at Wortley Hall, before heading for the Wedding Breakfast.
The Evening Reception begins at 7pm, where we look forward to welcoming more friends and family to continue to celebrate with us, partying the night away!
We would like our Wedding day to be an adult only occasion with the exception of Children under three, however we would like to open the invite to children of all ages to the evening reception at 7pm.
'Transport for the Big Day'
We want to reassure all of our Wedding Day guests that there will be transport provided from Wortley Hall to St James Church, Ryhill (and back again, haha!) to ensure that everyone has a stress free and enjoyable day. We want for all guests to enjoy the laughter and fun of an old fashioned bus ride!!
The buses will be starting to leave from around 10.30am to ensure everyone is safely at the Church before the Bride arrives. The Buses will then take all of our guests back to Wortley Hall to begin the celebrations!
When
THE WEDDING DAY
Thursday, June 1, 2023
Wedding Ceremony: 12:00 noon
Evening Reception: 7:00 pm
Where
Wedding Ceremony: St James Church, Ryhill, WF4 2DB
Wedding Reception: Wortley Hall, Sheffield, S35 7DB
Wortley Hall is a Stately Home that offers 52 guest bedrooms. The rooms range from single occupancy to suites & family rooms.
As we are looking forward to our guests joining us for two nights of celebrations we are offering a discount on all bedrooms at Wortley Hall for the 31st May 2023 and 1st June 2023, with dinner provided on the Evening of the 31st May!
To ensure that you are able to take advantage of this discount, we ask all guests contact Leigh-Anne on 07870212524 to arrange your stay.
Due to there only being a limited number of bedrooms we do recommend you book a room as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
South Yorkshire’s Wortley Hall has a rich history – it was originally the ancestral home of the Earls of Wharncliffe, the Lords of the Manor of Wortley. Wortley’s earliest recording in history is with the mention of Alnus de Wortley, noted in the Pipe Rolls for 1165. Sir Thomas Wortley, born in 1440, lived in the Manor Wortley, believed to be the original Wortley Hall. His grandson, Sir Richard Wortley, rebuilt Wortley Hall in 1586. During the English Civil War, Sir Francis Wortley commanded a loyalist garrison at nearby Tankersley, and led the battle of Tankersley Moor, where he was captured by the Roundheads and taken to the Tower of London. Wortley Hall then fell into decay until the mid-18th century. When Edward Wortley commissioned the rebuilding of the Hall in 1800, James Archibald Stuart Wortley and his wife Caroline Creighton took up residence. The planning, landscaping, ornamental planting and the ultimate beauty of the current grounds, are attributed to Lady Caroline. Further repairs and extensions to the Hall were made mainly during the Victorian period. During the 1939-45 war, parts of the Hall were occupied by the Army, and after 1945 the Hall once again began to fall into a state of disrepair.
In 1950 The Wharncliffe family decided to give up the hall and it was available to lease.
Vin Williams, addressed other local labour movement activists outlining a proposal that Wortley Hall could have the potential of being owned by the workers and run for the workers benefit. On 5th May 1951, Wortley Hall was formally opened as an educational and holiday centre, for the trade union, labour and co-operative movement. It was in a semi-derelict condition and the workers of South Yorkshire and surrounding areas carried out most of the repairs and restoration voluntarily and managed to restore the original features including the painted ceilings, ornamental friezes and wood carvings.
