Facilities

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.