Seminars, training days, conferences, product launches, trade shows and weddings can be held here for up to 450 seated guests or 500 at a cocktail, with 118 beds on site. Manoir de Corny is a group of buildings around a 14th-century tithe barn at Frenelles-en-Vexin, in the Norman Vexin, about 1 h 15 from Paris and 40 minutes from Rouen.
Seminars and company events
The estate takes seminars, training, conferences, team building, new year events, launches and exhibitions. Rooms have a video projector, screen, sound system, Wi-Fi and videoconference equipment for hybrid meetings. Companies have the use of the whole estate, park included. The Petit Manoir suits executive committees and strategy meetings, with lounges, a pool, outdoor games and table football for informal time. Team building activities can run on site, in the neighboring forest or in the area. For residential groups, the estate lists 18 rooms with private bathrooms and 20 rooms with shared bathrooms.
Weddings and receptions
More than 2,500 weddings have been held at Corny since 1987. Ceremonies take place in the park, under the large trees or under a Berber tent, or in the Petite Grange. The Grange Dîmière seats up to 450 guests in summer or winter and keeps room for a dance floor. Its working fireplace, wooden floor and heating with two backup boilers make it usable in the cold season, with Christmas decorations in December. The Petit Manoir, with six bedrooms, a secured pool and a sauna, serves as the base for preparations, and its garden suits a cocktail. Friday dinner weddings with a Saturday brunch are offered as an alternative to busy Saturdays.
Rooms and capacities
The Grange Dîmière covers about 550 square meters under its original oak frame. It seats up to 450 and takes 500 standing, with built-in sound, a projection screen, a stage, buffets, a DJ booth and adjustable indirect lighting. The Petite Grange, 230 square meters and open to the forest, seats up to 200 and suits a brunch, a lunch or a ceremony. The Petit Manoir has two ground-floor lounges for small groups. The 2-hectare park at the edge of the forest hosts outdoor ceremonies, cocktails and team building.
Accommodation
The estate sleeps 118 people in 41 bedrooms, in rooms, houses and a dormitory. Rooms above the tithe barn sleep 12 and two chalets sleep 15 each. The Petit Manoir takes 14, the Annexe and Atelier houses 12 each, Maison Anna 14 and the Four à pain house four to five. A dormitory sleeps 19. The sister property Cosy Campagne, nearby at Saussay-la-Campagne, adds 25 beds.
Catering
The estate works with nearby caterers who favor local produce. Every format is possible: breakfast buffets, coffee breaks, plated lunches and dinners, cocktail meals, and a private chef at the Petit Manoir.
History and setting
Philip IV gave the Corny estate to the abbesses of Poissy when the abbey was founded in March 1310. After the Black Death of 1348, John II granted them the right to fell timber in the Lyons forest, and they built the tithe barn to store the tithe. Its oak frame, cut in that forest, is original. The flint walls probably reuse stone from a Gallo-Roman fort found beneath the floor. The estate was a farm for most of the 20th century, began hosting receptions in 1987 and joined the Caupona group in 2023.
Getting there
The estate is at 1 chemin de la Vieille Côte, Frenelles-en-Vexin, reached by the A13 or the Cergy to Rouen road. Les Andelys is 10 minutes away and Lyons-la-Forêt 20 minutes.
