Basing House Basing House Events 15th August 202415th August 2024 14-15th September The Marquess of Winchester’s Regiment has a spiritual home at the ruins of Basing House. Basing was the home of home of John Paulet, 5th Marquess of Winchester, who held the House for the King during the English Civil War. The Marquess’s loyalty to both his Roman Catholic religion
The Great Hall, Winchester Events 15th July 2024 Wednesday 24th and Sunday 28th July The Marquess of Winchester's Regiment is very honoured to be allowed to appear in the historic Great Hall in Winchester. The Hall, with 'King Arthur's Round Table' dominating it, was already ancient when the English Civil War took place. In such a historic structure, there are
Cogges Manor Farm Events 1st May 2024 Sunday 30th June & Sunday 4th August The year is 1643 and the King needs to raise funds and to recruit soldiers for his army. An Officer and soldiers from Marquess of Winchesters Regiment have been sent to West Oxfordshire to ask wealthy land owners to support the Kings cause and to recruit soldiers.
Basing House – 16th & 17th September Basing House Events 31st August 2023 Basing House, home of John Paulet, the fifth Marquess of Winchester, was known as Loyalty House for the fierce commitment of the Marquess to the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. As the House guarded the main road from London to the west country (now the A30) it was
Speen Fete Events 29th May 2023 Saturday 10th June The Marquess of Winchester’s regiment will be providing a drill display with musket and cannon firing along with a Civil War campsite as part of the entertainment at Speen Fete. The fete is being held at Speen Recreation Ground, Station Road, Speed RG14 1UD and runs from 12.30-4.30 pm. Donations
Montacute House Events 7th February 20237th February 2023 18th & 19th February The Marquess of Winchester’s Regiment will be demonstrating some aspects of life in Montacute House during the first part of the seventeenth century. Montacute House was completed in about 1598, by Sir Edward Phelips, a prominent lawyer. Image: Gideon Tozer Come and see how the important people who lived
Blenheim Palace, 30th & 31st July 2nd footguards Coldstream Guards Events 27th July 2022 On the 30th 31st July Winchester's, in their 1685 persona of the 2nd Foot Guards Regiment - The Coldstream Guards - will be taking part in Blenheim Palace's "Marlborough 300 Pageant" https://www.blenheimpalace.com/.../marlborough-300... Here we will be providing a Living History display and be a part of a skirmish referencing elements of the
St George’s Festival Wrest Park, 23-24 April 2022 Events 8th March 2022 Wrest Park, Silsoe, Bedfordshire MK45 4HR The Marquess of Winchester’s Regiment will be at Wrest Park for their annual St George’s Day event, depicting an English Civil War Royalist Foot Regiment in a drill two times a day with a troop of armoured Parliamentary Cavalry called Sir Heselrig’s Lobsters. We are
Delapre Abbey 21-22nd August Events 16th July 202117th July 2021 The Marquess of Winchester’s regiment will be guests of Colonel Nicholas Devereux’s Regiment of Foot at Delapre Abbey in Northamptonshire. Come to this beautiful medieval Abbey in the picturesque parkland at Delapre with a large military camp, kitchens and demonstrations of life in the 17th Century at the beginning of
Basing House, 16-17th October Basing House Events 16th July 202117th July 2021 We are very pleased to announce that the Marquess of Winchester’s Regiment will be retuning to its spiritual home for a series of re-enactment displays over the weekend 16th-17th October. This particular weekend has been chosen as it is the closest to the anniversary of the final fall of Basing