Accommodation near Michelham Priory for wedding guests

Michelham Priory is a moated medieval priory at Upper Dicker with seven acres of grounds: the house, lawns, an orchard, a kitchen garden, a courtyard garden and the Elizabethan barn where the weddings happen. It is run by Sussex Past, the charity that also looks after Lewes Castle and Anne of Cleves House, and the same partner code covers weddings at all three.

Getting there from the apartment

Michelham Priory is at Upper Dicker, about 13 miles east of Lewes: roughly 25 minutes along the A27 towards Polegate, then north through Upper Dicker. Straightforward, well signed, and an easy run back after the evening. For Lewes Castle, walk: it is at the top of the High Street, four minutes from the door. Anne of Cleves House is ten minutes on foot down Southover High Street.

Why guests stay with us for a Michelham wedding

The priory sits in quiet countryside with little accommodation of its own nearby. Lewes gives a wedding party a proper town to get ready in and to wake up in: three bathrooms so nobody is queuing for the shower at 11am, a big living room to pin corsages and open a bottle before the cars arrive, and restaurants, pubs and the castle for the morning after. Two parking spaces mean the designated drivers have somewhere to come back to.