The Society of Antiquaries takes pride in providing an exceptionally
high level of personal service to clients whilst maintaining the
highest professional standards. The Society's apartments offer a unique
and intimate setting for formal lectures, meetings and conferences as
well as social receptions and dinners. Together the Council Room, Entrance Hall and Meeting Room form an excellent conference suite, with the Entrance Hall doubling as reception area and and registration space, and the Council Room as a serving area for meals.
The Meeting Room:
The Meeting Room has been the venue for Antiquarian lectures for over
100 years. Many historical figures have given or attended lectures
here, including William Gladstone and Sir Mortimer Wheeler. More
recently the Meeting Room has hosted lectures by well-known
personalities such as Dr David Starkey and the actor Robert Hardy.
- Capacity: 100 seated
- Multimedia projector
- Single slide projector
- Overhead projector
- Microphone/pa system
- Two extra handheld microphones
- Induction loop
- 12-inch preview monitor
- Lecture video recording facility
- Mobile AV and video conferencing unit with 50-inch plasma screen
The Council Room: The elegant nineteenth-century interior of the Council Room is suitable for boardroom meetings and as a reception room. It also makes an unusual and refined, but intimate, dining room for formal dinners, and is used for such purposes by a number of dining clubs and associations.
- Capacity when used as a boardroom: 25
- Capacity for dinner: 20
- Capacity for receptions: 50
The Hall:
The marble-floored hall provides a spacious and elegant overflow
facility for receptions and conferences. It can comfortably accommodate
up to 100 people at a reception; tables and display boards can be
supplied for conferences and seminars.
The Mortimer Wheeler Room: Named after one of the country's best-known archaeologists, the Mortimer Wheeler Room provides a prestigious central London venue for smaller scale meetings at a competitive price, with a capacity of 25 and audio-visual equipment available by request.
The Library and the Fellows Room: The Society's impressive Library (frequently seen on television programmes featuring TV archaeologists and historians, such as David Starkey) is sumptuously accommodated in an original Banks and Barry interior and retains all of its original features. It houses a number of portraits and busts from the Society's collection including works by Gainsborough and the curious Falling Ball Clock.
The Fellows Room, with its unique
display of artefacts, antiquarian books and prints re-creates the
atmosphere of a gentleman's club. It provides the perfect location for
the filming interviews, arts programmes and documentaries.
Contact us
Room hire rates are available here (Word file, 502 KB), along with a booking form (Word file 490 KB) and room hire policy guide (Word file 68 KB), plus a selection of menus from our in-house catering service (Word file 50 KB). For further details please call the Society on tel: 020 7479 7080.
Filming and location photography
Guidance for media producers can be downloaded here (Word file, 475 KB).
Disabled access
The Society provides wheelchair access to the Meeting Room and all ground floor facilities. It is advisable to notify the Society in advance of a booking so that assistance can be provided.