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CEDARS HALL
Cedars Hall
The health and safety of our visitors, pupils and staff is of utmost importance, and we are pleased to be able to reassure you that ‘We’re Good to Go‘. For more details, click here to see our Covid information page.
Please click here to browse our brochure online or click here to go to our ‘What’s on’ page where you can find out more about our events and book.
Mark Stringer, Director of Music
Your Visit
How to get to Cedars Hall
Cedars Hall is situated in the heart of Wells Cathedral School and can be accessed on foot either from The Liberty ( ) or from the main gate on College Road ( ) (postcode BA5 2ST). Please note there is no public access via the service gate at the Bristol Hill junction of New Street and Mountery Road (X) (A39).
How to get to Quilter Hall
Quilter Hall is located in the Music School directly next to Wells Cathedral (BA5 2UE). There is limited parking next to Quilter Hall and Wells Cathedral at the side of the road.
If you need disabled parking, it is best to try and arrive early or ring the Box Office who will try to arrange for some reserved parking next to Quilter Hall. There is disabled parking on Cathedral Green and in the market square.
Parking for Cedars Hall
We are able to allocate disabled-only parking in the car park adjacent to Cedars House on The Liberty. Please contact the box office (01749 834483) to reserve a disabled parking space. Please refrain from parking here unless you have booked a disabled space.
Further evening-only parking is available in Wells Cathedral School’s Mundy’s Meadow car park (BA5 2QL) ; from here it is a short traffic-free walk via Lovers Walk to The Liberty.
Alternative Parking in Wells
Additional parking spaces are available in the city’s public car parks. Charges start from £1.50 for two hours parking during the day and are often free after 6.00pm. All these car parks are within a 15-minute walk from Cedars Hall:
Market Square (BA5 2RB)
Union Street (off Chamberlain Street, BA5 2PU)
South Street (BA5 1SL)
Princes Road (BA5 1TE)
Tucker Street (off West Street, BA5 1TF)
For more information on parking in Wells, please visit en.parkopedia.co.uk/parking/wells.
Useful Information
Cash Points
Wells is full of cash points and banks, and the furthest you would walk for cash from Quilter Hall is less than 500 metres or 1000 metres from Cedars Hall.
Photography & Filming
No photography or recording of any kind is permitted during concerts or drama productions.
Arrivals
The doors aim to be opened roughly 30-45 minutes before the event is due to start. We will admit latecomers at a suitable break in the performance unless the artist has requested something different (such as no admittance until the interval).
Dress Codes
You can wear whatever you feel comfortable in at all of our concerts and events; there is no dress code.
Wheelchair Access
We have wheelchair access to our venues in Wells, but we cannot guarantee access at the external events so it is best to check with the external venues themselves.
Lost Property
If the concert took place at Cedars Hall or Quilter Hall, please call our Box Office on 01749 834483 or contact the school reception on 01749 834200. For concerts at Wells Cathedral, please call the cathedral directly on 01749 674483. For external events, please call the external venues directly.
Terms & Conditions
Please click here for our full Cedars Hall and events gift voucher terms and conditions.
Booking Information
Contacting our Box Office
Please feel free to contact our Box Office on 01749 834483, [email protected] or by using the form below for bookings, reservations and any enquiries we haven’t answered below.
Opening Hours
Telephone sales are open Monday to Friday from 9.30am – 4.00pm. We are closed on weekends, bank holidays and the Christmas week. Please leave a message if you cannot get hold of us and we will call you back promptly.
Seating Options at Cedars Hall
Depending on the event, we have various seating options for you to choose from. Please see our guide ‘Which Seat Should I Book at Cedars Hall?‘ for details.
Booking Protect
We hope you will be able to attend and enjoy all events you book with us, but we understand that sometimes life gets in the way!
We are pleased to be able to offer refund protection through our partnership with Booking Protect. This refund protection allows you to apply for a full refund on your order should you, or anyone in your party, be unable to attend due to unforeseen circumstances. This includes injury, illness, travel trouble and other unexpected events. Full details can be found in the terms and conditions.
The option to buy refund protection will be automatically offered at the time of booking. Please note, the cost is automatically calculated based on the total amount of your order.
Click here if you wish to make a refund request (refunds will be issued by Booking Protect via a bank transfer regardless of the original payment method).
Discounts
Our Friends of Music receive 10% off concert tickets and receive advance information of our events. To apply or find out more about being a Friend, please click here.
Loyalty Points Scheme
To reward our audience members who frequently attend concerts at Cedars Hall, and its associated venues, we have a Loyalty Reward scheme which you can join to collect reward points for buying tickets to Cedars Hall concerts and events. You can earn £1 for every £10 you spend on tickets purchased. Click here for more information.
Gift Vouchers
We sell Wells Cathedral School Concerts and Events gift vouchers, which can be used to purchase tickets for our applicable concerts and events at Wells Cathedral School and its associated venues. Gift vouchers can be purchased online or by calling the Box Office on 01749 834483. Please click here for full terms and conditions.
Collecting Tickets
If you have selected to collect your tickets on the door, they will normally be available for collection from the concert venue an hour before a performance.
Tickets Sent by Post
We post all of our tickets asap. Whilst we have no control over how long post takes to get to you, in our experience, the vast majority of tickets arrive on time. If you think they should have arrived but they haven’t, please don’t worry. If there is plenty of time until the concert, please be patient as it is likely that there is simply a back-log. If the concert is imminent, please contact the Box Office (01749 834483) and we will reprint your tickets for collection on the door.
Ticket Refunds
We cannot refund tickets. However, if you bought your tickets directly from us, not through an agency, and the show is sold out, then we will endeavour to re-sell your tickets. We are not able to offer this service in the last 48 hours before a concert. Please contact the Box Office as soon as possible and note that we will need the physical tickets returned before we can start the process of re-selling. We cannot guarantee that we will be able to sell for you, but we will try. If the concert is not sold out, then your best course of action is to try and offer them to family and friends.
Lost Tickets
If you have mislaid your tickets, please contact the Box Office, and we will take your details and duplicate the ticket.
Booking Fees
We don’t have a booking fee, but we do charge a £1 postage fee as an optional service (collection/print at home options are free). We do not charge any other fees.
Our Venues
Cedars Hall
Our world class performing arts venue Cedars Hall, opened in autumn 2016, was designed by leading London architect, Eric Parry, and is the most audacious development in our school’s history.
Cedars Hall provides the capacity for audiences of 350 in its main recital hall named Eavis Hall after our Old Wellensian Michael Eavis, CBE, founder of the Glastonbury Festival. Eavis Hall is a flexible and modern performance space accommodating an orchestra of 60 performers and an audience of 250, with other configurations possible through adaptation of seating and platforms. Whilst the hall’s award-winning design was devised to give chamber musicians the very best acoustic experience, the flexibility of the technical specification means that this venue is accessible for performers of every discipline – for amplified music, dance, drama and lectures.
In addition to events in Eavis Hall, Cedars Hall provides rehearsal, teaching and performance space for the school’s 200 specialist musicians and serves as a hub for its significant community outreach, which provides music education (including workshops, concerts and masterclasses) for thousands of primary school children, elderly and disability groups in the South West each year.
Cedars Hall includes three further teaching and practice spaces, each with an adjoining unique observation facilities as well as the John Baxter Foyer, bar and state-of-the-art recording facilities.
Cedars Hall opens into a warm and embracing space having, as it does, a superb natural acoustic. An upper gallery adds the all-important extra dimension. The whole is surrounded by lawns and everyone involved in the design, construction, execution and management of this wonderful addition is to be congratulated.
Christian Blackshaw MBE, piano master
Eavis Hall and The John Baxter Foyer are available to hire.
Quilter Hall
Part of the music school buildings opposite the cathedral, Quilter Hall is a small, medieval, former concert hall. It is named after Alan and Sheila Quilter, the couple who recreated this school and did so much to ensure that it flourishes now. It was Alan, as headmaster, who acquired the former Archdeacon’s House from Wells Theological College and thus launched the school’s ability to sustain its music specialism.
Quilter Hall tends to be used for smaller concerts such as our lunchtime series, masterclasses, early music and chamber music concerts.
Quilter Hall is available to hire.
Wells Cathedral
Wells Cathedral was built between 1175 and 1490, replacing an earlier church built on the same site in 705. With its broad west front and large central tower, it is a landmark in the Somerset countryside. It has been described as “unquestionably one of the most beautiful” and as “the most poetic” of English cathedrals. The cathedral’s architecture is entirely Gothic and mostly in the Early English style of the late 12th and early 13th centuries.
Wells Cathedral is an extraordinary venue for our large-scale performances, such as Symphony Orchestra Concerts and the annual Brass and Percussion Promenade and Woodwind Promenade.
Information for Businesses
Venue Hire
A number of our lovely buildings are available for hire. Please visit our Venue Hire page for details.
Advertising and Sponsorship Opportunities
Please click here for the Cedars Hall Brochure rate card. If you would like to find out more about advertising in our brochure or our other advertising and sponsorship opportunities, please email Sue Bartucca at [email protected] or fill in the form below.