Bower A barn, a walled garden and a very long table

The long room

Windows the whole length of the south wall

The long room

A single long room in the old stable range. It suits one continuous table better than it suits rounds, which is a limitation and also the reason people choose it.

How many it holds

The room is 127 m². Once the bar, the cake table, the band and the gangways are out, 112 m² of it is floor you can put people on. Everything below follows from that.

Capacity by layout
Round tables 69 7 tables 1.8 m rounds of ten, three metres apart, with service to every table.
Long tables 79 650 mm of table edge each, seated both sides, 1.4 m between runs.
Ceremony rows 139 Chairs at 450 mm, rows 900 mm apart, a 1.2 m aisle and side gangways.
Standing reception 171 Two thirds of a square metre each, which is a glass in hand and room to turn round.

What the light does

Computed for this valley, not for the nearest city — Somerset, England. Times are the venue's own.

Saturday 17 October 2026

Sunrise
7:37 am over the east
Light goes golden
5:28 pm the hour photographers ask for
Sunset
6:14 pm behind the west side
Usable light gone
6:47 pm lights on after this
Highest the sun gets
30° 12:56 pm