Every winter, one of our favourite gatherings fills the barn with the scent of fresh pine and the quiet buzz of people making something beautiful.

A winter wedding at the Tithe Barn near York: candlelight, character and cosy celebration in a heated 16th-century barn. Ideas and why it is the perfect venue.

A winter wedding at the Tithe Barn near York: candlelight, character and cosy celebration in a heated 16th-century barn. Ideas and why it is the perfect venue.

There are few things we love more than watching the barn dressed for a celebration, and this Sri Lankan wedding was a joy from beginning to end.

Some buildings simply hold the weather off. Others hold time itself. Stand inside the Tithe Barn on a quiet afternoon, with the light falling through the old timbers, and you are standing where Yorkshire life has gathered for close to five hundred years.