2013 TICKET PRICES (Discounted prices in brackets for purchases before 1st June)

Weekend Ticket

Adult £60 (£50)

Concessionary - OAPs, season ticket holders and students £58 (£48)

Including children 12-15 years old (Families need only buy 1 child ticket - under 12’s FREE)

Friday Evening 6pm –Midnight

Adult £30 (£25) / Concessionary £28 (£23)

Saturday Day 11am - Midnight

Adult £45 (£40) / Concessionary £43 (£38)

Saturday Evening 6pm – Midnight

Adult £35 (£30) / Concessionary £33 (£28)

Sunday Day11am - 6pm

Adult £35 (£30) / Concessionary £33 (£28)

Camping Voucher - One voucher req’d per tent, caravan or campervan.

Each camper must have a WEEKEND festival ticket.
Friday 3pm - Monday noon £40 (£35)

Burton Agnes Hall – Info and History

Burton Agnes Hall is a house of immense charm and character. It has many unusual features and is fortunate in suffering so little from alterations or additions in its history. The family stress that it is a ‘lived-in’ home and this welcome quality is perhaps its most appealing asset.  Since the Norman Manor House was built by Roger de Stuteville in 1173 the property has never changed hands by sale, though it has passed from family to family on occasions when the male line has ended.

The beautiful proportions of the Hall and its adherence to the principles of Tudor Renaissance architecture (Commoditie, Firmness and Delight) confirm that a professional hand drew up the designs. The architect was in fact Robert Smithson - Master Mason to Queen Elizabeth I and builder of such other famous houses as Longleat, Wollaton and Hardwick. It is the only Smithson house where the plan still exists, in the RIBA collection. In his definitive book on the Smithsons, Mark Girouard called Burton Agnes a ’spendid and glittering composition’.

Burton Agnes Hall has been in the same family since it was built in 1598, though it has passed through the female line on occasions. Built between 1598 and 1610 by Sir Henry Griffith, Burton Agnes Hall is an Elizabethan stately home that has stayed within the Cunliffe-Lister family for more than four hundred years. Fifteen generations have filled the Hall with treasures, from magnificent carvings commissioned when the Hall was built to French impressionist paintings, contemporary furniture, tapestries and other modern artwork in recent years.

In 1977 Mr. Marcus Wickham-Boynton handed the Hall and gardens to a charitable trust formed for its protection and future upkeep. Under this arrangement it was hoped that future generations of the Boynton family would continue to live in it and it would therefore remain a ‘lived-in’ family home.

In 1989 on Marcus Wickham-Boynton’s death the estate passed to his young cousin Simon Cunliffe-Lister and, until he came of age, was under the guardianship of his mother, Susan Cunliffe-Lister.

In 2005 Simon formally took responsibility for Burton Agnes Hall and with his wife Olivia and their three children Islay , Joss and Otis the Cunliffe-Lister family continue the tradition of maintaining and caring for this well-loved family home.  

The Hall hosts many special events throughout the year including, amongst others, The Snowdrop Spectacular and Walk, Orchid Festival, Gardeners’ Fair, Classic Car Rally, Easter Egg Hunt and their annual Jazz Festival.

For more information please visit http://www.burtonagnes.com