Garden Tours
The Priory Tea Gardens will continue to open for pre-booked parties of a minimum number of 10 people. There will be a £5.00 charge per person which will include a tour of the garden by Dawn the owner including a talk about the historic planting lasting approximately 1 hour. A selection of cakes and beverages from our tea room menu including traditional Devon cream tea can also be booked in advance.
Open between Mothering Sunday and August bank holiday on selected days.
Mothering Sunday (14th March) - 10.00am-4.00pm
Easter Sunday and Easter Monday (4th and 5th April) - 12.00noon-5.00pm
Summer:
Saturday June 12th - 2.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m.
Sunday June 13th - 2.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m.
High quality teas and coffees, a mouth-watering selection of homemade cakes and savoury dishes, and the elegance of traditional service await you in this amazingly beautiful and historic tearoom. Perfect after a stroll along the Great Western canal.
In line with our environmental policy and in consideration of our neighbours we would encourage our visitors to travel on foot or by bicycle wherever possible. Also due to limited parking facilities please note that a short walk from your car may be necessary, if you have limited mobility we will do our best to ensure closer parking is available.
Tea rooms
We have decided to use the barn with it’s atmospheric high beamed ceiling to house the tea-rooms. We think the barn would once have been the Victorian carriage house, as we discovered evidence of the old driveway in this area. Having painted the ceiling red above the beams and wound fresh hop garlands around the roof supports, there is now a rustic charm, which we hope will be conducive, to companiable afternoon tea. It was a puzzle to decide the best way to reflect the medieval history relating to the priory, at the same time as giving a true representation of a quality Georgian or Victorian tea room. We hope the result is pleasing as well as unique.
Bone-china, and antique lace
For the bone china I was lucky enough to catch what turned out fortuitously for us to be the end of an era, in as far as many of the well known British potteries have now been taken over and are no longer to be manufactured in this country, resulting in a vast sale of end of lines. Some of the most popular will still be produced overseas but it’s not quite the same is it?
The tables will be dressed with a linen/hemp under-cloth to remind us of the medieval history here. This will be overlaid with antique lace top cloth. Fresh seasonal flowers and herbs picked from the gardens will deck each table.
Table service will be by our trained team of local waiters and waitresses.
Enjoy