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OUT AND ABOUT COMPTON VERNEY
COMPTON VERNEY OUT AND ABOUT
Art Gallery & Park
COMPTON
VERNEY
Amadeus are adding Compton Verney to
their portfolio, opening in mid-March
Amadeus are thrilled to announce a new
five-year contract with Compton Verney
worth £5m, providing full catering across
the venue, including the restaurant and all
hospitality at the Art Gallery and Park.
This includes providing inspiring menus
for weddings and corporate events at the
beautiful site near Stratford-upon-Avon.
The grounds opened this year as soon as the
first snowdrops popped up and the venue looks
beautiful in the crisp, misty mornings. The Park
was opened earlier this year so visitors could
rediscover the great outdoors and explore the
first signs of spring. When visitors have finished
with the fully equipped pond-dipping platform
and bird hide or would like to take a break from
the park’s wildlife, they can move inside to
experience great local dishes at the Compton
Kitchen, prepared and served by Amadeus.
Compton Verney holds exhibitions through
the year including ‘Creating the Countryside’,
a major display which includes Old Masters and
contemporary artists with work on display
spanning more than 350 years. ‘Portrait
Miniatures’ displays over 40 miniature paintings
on display. In the past the venue has been
illuminated at night in a light spectacular and
visitors can enjoy tours, talks and workshops.
The venue chose Amadeus because it needed
a caterer to deliver retail and conference and
banqueting catering, and with the Amadeus
headquarters only half-hour away, it made sense.
It is also a welcome return for Amadeus having
looked after the location between 2008 and
2011. The Amadeus team during the contract
negotiations made a real impact when winning
the contract back. The venue also particularly
enjoyed learning how Amadeus is keen to
support the local economy by sourcing local
ingredients and having successfully looked
after the site before, Compton Verney were
confident they could do it again.
The galleries have long drawn an audience
in and Amadeus were keen to provide a food
offering to match the wealth of collections on
show. This includes Chinese galleries containing
one of the top three Chinese art collections in
Europe, as well as a collection of paintings
from Naples that represent a cross-section
of masterpieces from the ‘Golden Age’ of
Neapolitan art from 1600 to 1800.
Amadeus worked closely with Inox Equip, the
award-winning Kitchen House, which Compton
Verney engaged to redesign the catering area
and give it a whole new look and feel. Inox are
committed to developing a vision and provide
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THE COMPTON VERNEY LANDSCAPE RESTORATION PROJECT
This £3.7m capital and revenue scheme
is supported by a £2.5m grant from the
Heritage Lottery Fund together with
significant contributions from a whole
range of other funders.
The project will preserve, restore and celebrate
the outstanding ‘Capability’ Brown landscape,
Grade I-listed Chapel and restoring this
nationally important heritage, a key objective
is to enliven landscape with eye-catchers and
activities which highlight the site’s history of
innovative thinking, art, architectural change
and ecological diversity. The works include:
• Restoring the ‘Capability’ Brown Chapel
of 1776-9
• Building a Visitor Welcome Centre to tell
the story of the site’s landscape, history and
ecology as well as providing visitor facilities
• Expanding learning, engagement and
volunteering opportunities
• Securing and developing the biodiversity of
the parkland and recreate original Georgian
pathways so visitors can view different
habitats while enjoying Brown’s sight lines
• Creating two eye-catchers, bridge and
wetland boardwalk in the landscape,
drawing attention to the history of the
site in refreshing new ways
• Using Brown’s landscape as a platform to
bring together a range of interests – art,
architecture, landscape design, health and
well-being, music, history, and ecology
– which will enable us to engage with
new audiences in totally new ways
Some of these activities have now been
completed and Amadeus wants to ensure that,
whilst completely separate to this activity, the
catering offered at the venue is perfect for
visitors and for events.
The park’s rich
history has a
multitude of activities
for visitors to enjoy
and explore
unique one-off concepts, and worked closely
with Amadeus to deliver this. After visitors
have explored the many pathways and nature
trails they can relax and unwind in the café.
The park’s rich history has a multitude of
activities for visitors to enjoy and explore. It
is the result of an ongoing 11-year restoration
project of the landscape to the one that
Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown designed in
1768 – an important landscape architect
who was employed to lay out the grounds
in keeping with the taste for more naturalistic
landscape. Today the new Compton Kitchen
design matches this quality offer and appeals
to all visitors, from those taking a Tai Chi
session in the park, to those who have spent
an afternoon cloud gazing or taking a tour. At
the same time, Amadeus also provides the
catering hospitality for events at the venue.
Compton Verney and its stunning
landscaped grounds, beautiful listed mansion
and world-class art collections make the
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