Please be seated.
Slot card 1 to begin at the first wedding.
Hugh Grant, 1997 · Andie MacDowell, 1998 · Simon Callow, 1989 · Rowan Atkinson, 1997
Order of service · 1994
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Five services, five real churches, and the inn, the mansion and the doorstep in between. Light a service below, then slot the numbers on the board.
Five services, five churches. Tap a number.
Order of service
Slot the numbers.
Every service in the film has its own church, and every one of them is real. Put each card on the board to see where it was.
An empty board. Five cards in the box.
St Bartholomew the Great
St Bartholomew the Great
West Smithfield, EC1 · Monday to Saturday 10am–5pm, Sundays between services · free
Walk up the nave where the fourth wedding stops. No admission charge; donations welcome.
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The trainee priest.
The Marriage
… to be your … wedded wife
The congregation waits.
The college says its Chapel of St Peter and St Paul played St Mary of the Fields, for Bernard and Lydia’s wedding. Rowan Atkinson plays the trainee priest who fluffs the vows here, and turns a lawful wedded wife into an awful one.
Open daily, 10am–5pm; the Painted Hall next door needs a ticket.
Where we read it
Old Royal Naval College
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From the Visitor Centre, King William Walk, Greenwich · £25 adults · £10 children · £19 concessions; check the day’s times
A guided walk round the college’s filming locations for groups of up to 25, from the Painted Hall to the chapel, with a short lesson in fan etiquette.
See the tourHertfordshire · Bedfordshire
The seating plan.
Two receptions, two real houses. Pick a place card, then a table.
Where will Charles sit?
Table one · the first reception
Nobody yet.
Goldington’s · Church End, between Chorleywood and Sarratt, Hertfordshire
The first reception, the one with the sheep, is Goldington’s, a private home in 52 acres of Hertfordshire countryside. It is not open to the public.
A private home. It is not open to the public, so it is not on our map.
Where we read it
Table two · the second reception
Nobody yet.
Luton Hoo · The Luton Drive, Luton, Bedfordshire
The second reception, “The Holbein Place” on screen, was staged at Luton Hoo, then a stately home. The estate lists the film among the productions made there.
Now a hotel. Book a room or a table to go inside the mansion.
Where we read it
Wedding three
Perthshire was Surrey.
The Chapel
Glenthrist Castle
Perthshire
Perthshireon screen
The invitation says Scotland. Frank it to see where it really was.
The old church, Albury Park · Albury Park, five miles south-east of Guildford, Surrey
The Churches Conservation Trust says its church of St Peter and St Paul at Albury was the setting for Carrie’s wedding to Hamish, dressed with candles and flowers. On screen it is a castle chapel in Perthshire. One location guide places the wedding in Albury Park Mansion next door, now private apartments.
Open daily. The estate lets visitors park at the edge of the track in front of the church; the last stretch is on grass.
Where we read it
Rotherfield Park · East Tisted, south of Alton, Hampshire
The kilt-swirling castle interior of the third wedding is Rotherfield Park, a Victorian Gothic house at East Tisted. It is not open to the public.
A private house. It is not open to the public, so it is not on our map.
Where we read it
High Street · Old Amersham
One inn, two doors.
After the first wedding Charles and Carrie end up at the Lucky Boatman. The outside and the inside are two different inns, about 80 metres apart on the same street.
Swing the sign to go inside.
The Kings Arms · 30 High Street, Old Amersham, Buckinghamshire
The half-timbered Kings Arms is the outside of the Lucky Boatman, the inn where Charles and Carrie spend their first night. Amersham Museum says both the King’s Arms and the Crown appear in the film.
A working inn on the High Street. The timbered front is best seen from across the road.
Where we read it
The Crown · 16 High Street, Old Amersham, Buckinghamshire
The inside of the inn was filmed a few doors along, at the Crown. The Crown says Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell spent their screen night in one of its Courtyard Suites. It has 45 en-suite rooms across the main inn, the courtyard suites and the Bailey rooms.
A working inn with a restaurant; book a room or a table.
Where we read it
The Crown
The Crown, Old Amersham
16 High Street, Old Amersham
The inn whose Courtyard Suites gave Charles and Carrie their night at the “Lucky Boatman”. 45 en-suite rooms, breakfast included; the Kings Arms is a few doors along.
Check roomsWest Thurrock · Essex
And a funeral.
Gareth’s funeral was filmed at the tiny church of St Clement, West Thurrock. Both the inside and the outside of the church are in the film.
Gareth dies at the third reception. At his funeral Matthew reads W. H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues”.
Procter & Gamble, whose factory stands beside the churchyard, took on the church and its yard in 1987.
Opens on the first weekend of each month from April to September, 11am–3pm. Check before you travel.
Where we read it
Where we read it
Gareth’s death, and Matthew’s reading of Auden at the funeral.
West Smithfield · Wedding four
Speak now, or…
If any man can shew any just cause…
Charles and Henrietta at the altar of “St Julian’s”. The whole church goes quiet.
Open Monday to Saturday, 10am–5pm, and on Sundays between services. No admission charge.
Where we read it
Then, London
BFI Southbank, the former National Film Theatre, August 2025. Ewan Munro · CC BY-SA 4.0 BFI Southbank · 1.7 km south-west of St Bart’s
On the South Bank terrace, by what was then the National Film Theatre, Charles explains David Cassidy and the Partridge Family to Carrie.
A public cinema and riverside terrace, open daily.
Where we read it
Highbury Fields beside Highbury Terrace, June 2014. David Howard · CC BY-SA 2.0 Highbury Fields · 3.6 km north of St Bart’s
Charles’s flat is 22 Highbury Terrace, at the north-west corner of Highbury Fields. Outside it, in the downpour of the final scene, Charles proposes to Carrie. Fans come to stand outside number 22, and the devoted wait for rain.
A public park. Highbury Terrace runs along its north-west corner. Number 22 is a private home, so it is not on our map.
Where we read it
The top table
Who’s who.
Hugh GrantCharles
Andie MacDowellCarrie
Kristin Scott ThomasFiona
Simon CallowGareth
John HannahMatthew
Rowan AtkinsonFather Gerald
Richard CurtisWriter
Mike NewellDirector
Made in 36 days on a budget of £2.7 million, it won the BAFTA for Best Film, with BAFTAs for Mike Newell, Hugh Grant and Kristin Scott Thomas, and Oscar nominations for Best Picture and for Richard Curtis’s screenplay.
Where we read it
Mike Newell directed and Richard Curtis wrote the film; the cast and their parts.
The 36-day shoot, the £2.7 million budget, the BAFTAs and the two Oscar nominations.
The guest list.
Where it is now
10 places you can visit, 4 of them in London. Goldington’s and Rotherfield Park are private houses and 22 Highbury Terrace is a private home: none of them is on the map. St Clement’s opens only on summer weekends.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Open daily, 10am–5pm; the Painted Hall next door needs a ticket.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Open Monday to Saturday, 10am–5pm, and on Sundays between services. No admission charge.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A public park. Highbury Terrace runs along its north-west corner.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A public cinema and riverside terrace, open daily.
The Chapel of St Peter and St Paul, Old Royal Naval College, September 2015. Diliff · CC BY-SA 3.0 King William Walk, Greenwich, SE10
The Chapel, Old Royal Naval College
The college says its Chapel of St Peter and St Paul played St Mary of the Fields, for Bernard and Lydia’s wedding.
Open daily, 10am–5pm; the Painted Hall next door needs a ticket.
Where we read it
The choir and high altar of St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, August 2014. 19Tarrestnom65 · CC BY-SA 4.0 West Smithfield, EC1
St Bartholomew the Great
The church where Charles has second thoughts at the fourth wedding is the Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great.
Open Monday to Saturday, 10am–5pm, and on Sundays between services. No admission charge.
Where we read it
Highbury Fields beside Highbury Terrace, June 2014. David Howard · CC BY-SA 2.0 Highbury, Islington, N5
Highbury Fields
Highbury Terrace runs along the north-west corner of Highbury Fields.
A public park. Highbury Terrace runs along its north-west corner.
Where we read it
BFI Southbank, the former National Film Theatre, August 2025. Ewan Munro · CC BY-SA 4.0 Belvedere Road, South Bank, SE1
BFI Southbank
On the South Bank terrace, by what was then the National Film Theatre, Charles explains David Cassidy and the Partridge Family to Carrie.
A public cinema and riverside terrace, open daily.
Where we read it
Stay
A night at the Boatman.
The Amersham inn whose Courtyard Suites were Charles and Carrie’s room.
The Crown
The Crown, Old Amersham
16 High Street, Old Amersham
The inn whose Courtyard Suites gave Charles and Carrie their night at the “Lucky Boatman”. 45 en-suite rooms, breakfast included; the Kings Arms is a few doors along.
Check roomsGo there
Walk up the aisle.
A film tour at Greenwich, the open doors of St Bart’s, and live tour listings.
Old Royal Naval College
Film Tour: Wigs, Weddings, Powder and Palaces
From the Visitor Centre, King William Walk, Greenwich · £25 adults · £10 children · £19 concessions; check the day’s times
A guided walk round the college’s filming locations for groups of up to 25, from the Painted Hall to the chapel, with a short lesson in fan etiquette.
See the tourSt Bartholomew the Great
St Bartholomew the Great
West Smithfield, EC1 · Monday to Saturday 10am–5pm, Sundays between services · free
Walk up the nave where the fourth wedding stops. No admission charge; donations welcome.
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Evensong, then Dickens.
Choral evensong at St Bart’s from 5 November, and A Christmas Carol inside the Greenwich chapel on 20 and 21 November.
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The screenplay and the songs.
Richard Curtis’s screenplay, a reader’s edition, and the 1994 soundtrack album.
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Richard Curtis’s screenplay with his notes, from St. Martin’s Griffin, 1996.
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Various Artists · CD, Vertigo, 1994
Fourteen tracks, opening with Wet Wet Wet’s “Love Is All Around”, with Elton John’s “But Not for Me” and Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive”, and Richard Rodney Bennett’s score.
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The register
Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
13 of 13 places · 12 of 12 Moments
St Michael’s Church, Betchworth
Church Street, Betchworth, Surrey
Wedding one
Angus and Laura marry; Charles is best man and meets Carrie.
Goldington’s
Church End, between Chorleywood and Sarratt, Hertfordshire
The first reception
The first reception, in a marquee in the country, with sheep.
The Chapel, Old Royal Naval College
King William Walk, Greenwich, SE10
Wedding two
Bernard and Lydia marry at “St Mary of the Fields”, with a trainee priest.
Luton Hoo
The Luton Drive, Luton, Bedfordshire
The second reception
The second reception, at “The Holbein Place”.
The Kings Arms
30 High Street, Old Amersham, Buckinghamshire
The Lucky Boatman
Charles and Carrie arrive at the inn.
The Crown
16 High Street, Old Amersham, Buckinghamshire
The room
Charles and Carrie’s night at the inn.
The old church, Albury Park
Albury Park, five miles south-east of Guildford, Surrey
Wedding three
Carrie marries Hamish in a “Perthshire” chapel.
Rotherfield Park
East Tisted, south of Alton, Hampshire
The castle
The third reception inside the “castle”.
St Clement’s, West Thurrock
St Clement’s Road, West Thurrock, Essex
The funeral
Gareth’s funeral.
St Bartholomew the Great
West Smithfield, EC1
Wedding four
Charles and Henrietta’s wedding at “St Julian’s”, stopped when David speaks up in sign language.
22 Highbury Terrace
Highbury Terrace, Islington, N5
The rain
Charles proposes to Carrie in the rain outside his flat.
Highbury Fields
Highbury, Islington, N5
BFI Southbank
Belvedere Road, South Bank, SE1
David Cassidy
Charles and Carrie talk on the South Bank terrace.