Historic Wedding Venues in Portsmouth

If you’re looking for historic venues in Portsmouth, you’re in the right place in terms of the website you’re browsing on and the location you have picked. Portsmouth is dripping in history with its plethora of museums collating historical facts and figures about the area, and ancient architecture from centuries gone by that illustrate the port city throughout the country’s eras.


Portsmouth is the naval base on England’s south coast, and most of the city is actually on Portsea Island. It’s well known for its historic maritime heritage and Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. It’s home to the interactive National Museum of the Royal Navy, the wooden warship HMS Victory, where Nelson died in the Battle of Trafalgar, and HMS Warrior 1860. The Tudor ship Mary Rose is also conserved in the dockyard museum.


It’s certainly the place to go if you’re looking for a historic wedding setting with a maritime twist. You can get married in all sorts of places including a venue out to sea in the form of Spitbank Fort! The coastal city isn’t far from Winchester either with its enormous Cathedral that hosts weddings or the historic Guildhall. Portsmouth is the perfect location for a historic wedding venue so browse through and select your favourites!