Meols Hall Wedding Photography

Meols Hall is a beautiful wedding venue, and I was privileged to photograph a wedding there recently.

History of Meols Hall

There has been a house at Meols Hall since the early 12th century. Amazingly, ownership has passed through 27 generations of the Hesketh family, who still own it to this day.

An early 18th Century country house, Meols Hall is actually pieced together from so many bits and pieces reclaimed from other now-vanished stately homes. Lots of the bricks used in the 1950s restoration came from Tulketh Hall, and Palladian artefacts were brought here from Lathom House. The marble fireplace in the library had quite the life before Meols Hall. The striking pink marble was brought from the ruins of Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli just outside of Rome to be placed within Bold Hall, near St Helens. Then when this English Manor House was dismantled, the fireplace was acquired by Meols Hall.

The hall also owns many historic items, including three chairs from the coronation of Charles II. These chairs have been passed down through the generations of the Hesketh family, all stemming from when the family attended the coronation in 1661 at Westminster Abbey.

Within the house is a priest’s hole, a hidden refuge for St Edmund Campion. It was created in the darkest days of the religious persecutions after the Reformation back in the 16th Century.

Historically Meols Hall has had links to large areas of land across Fleetwood and Fylde. Peter Hesketh hired the eminent architect of the time, Decimus Burton to carry out the plans and work on his vision for the costal town. Work on the railway line and the first buildings in Fleetwood commenced in 1836.

The estate covers a vast area of countryside, including 2,000 acres of parkland, woodlands, and formal gardens. Close to the main house is their famous 400-year-old tithe barn, one of the finest surviving barns in the country.

Photographing Weddings at Meols Hall

The vast characterful interior now serves as a fantastic wedding venue and events space. This historic barn has to be the most beautiful I’ve ever seen on my travels! Whilst the delightful cobbled courtyard and gardens make this a perfect wedding venue.

I particularly enjoyed working with the atmospheric light that streams into this fabulous barn through its characterful windows.

These pictures were captured on a glorious summer’s day, on my first and only visit to Meols Hall too. But I’d love to return to this magical Merseyside wedding venue one day! Even though I’m in Buckinghamshire, I regularly travel throughout England for my photography assignments.

If you’d like to discuss your wedding photography requirements I’d love to hear from you