Mansion House
/ About
Mansion House is the official residence and office of the Lord Mayor of the City of London, a Grade I listed Palladian building designed by George Dance the Elder and begun in 1739. It stands opposite Bank station, across Walbrook from the Royal Exchange, and its state rooms are given over to private hire when civic business allows. The house also holds the City's plate collection and the Harold Samuel collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings, which hang in the rooms clients actually use rather than behind museum rope.
The Egyptian Hall is the room everything else is arranged around: a double-height space based on the classical architect Vitruvius's account of Egyptian rooms, ranked by Corinthian columns beneath a coffered barrel ceiling, with a stained-glass window at one end. It takes 360 on long tables, 250 on rounds, or 500 for a reception, and links directly to the Salon and the Drawing Rooms, so a dinner can decant into the adjoining state rooms without leaving the floor. The Salon is the anteroom to it. The Drawing Rooms, green-walled and hung with the Dutch pictures, work as a reception space or a green room. The Long Parlour has daylight and a fireplace, and the Old Ballroom sits a floor above.
Hire is corporate and commercial only: the house does not take weddings, engagements or birthday parties. Catering is exclusively in-house through Social Pantry, and while a sound technician and a basic PA for speeches come with the room, anything beyond that is brought in — clients may use their own suppliers on a RAMS and public liability certificate, so music and production are specified per event rather than inherited from a house rig. There is step-free access, a manned cloakroom and a dedicated event manager on every booking.
/ Rooms Available
The Egyptian Hall
Exclusive HireThe largest space in the house and the room the rest of the floor is arranged around, based on the classical architect Vitruvius's account of Egyptian rooms: Corinthian columns rank down both sides beneath a coffered barrel ceiling, with a stained-glass window above the gallery at one end. It takes 360 on long tables, 250 on rounds or 500 for a reception, and opens directly into the Salon and the Drawing Rooms.
The Old Ballroom
PrivateA long second-floor room with an arched window at the far end, a patterned blue carpet and gilt-framed pictures along the walls. It suits dinners and receptions in their own right, and is often taken alongside the first-floor rooms for larger multi-room events. It holds 120 on round tables or 180 for a reception.
The Salon
PrivateThe anteroom to the Egyptian Hall, and the room a dinner spills into: white and gold, columned, with a crystal chandelier over a deep red carpet. It works for a drinks reception ahead of the Hall, a VIP dinner in its own right, or as the lunch room for a conference, and it also adjoins the Drawing Rooms and the Long Parlour. Dining for 75, or 150 for a reception.
The Long Parlour
PrivateA daylit room with a fireplace, chandeliers and pictures hung close, the most adaptable of the state rooms: private dinners, boardroom meetings, presentations and performances all sit in it comfortably, and its natural light makes it the room production teams ask for. Forty on round tables, 38 on a single long table, or 90 for a reception.
The Drawing Rooms
PrivateA pair of green-walled rooms hung with the Harold Samuel collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings, with crystal chandeliers, red silk seating and a marble fireplace. They can be thrown together with the neighbouring spaces for a larger reception, or divided for breakouts and small meetings, and they open straight into the Egyptian Hall, which makes them the natural green room for a conference. Forty in each, 80 combined.
/ Perfect For
/ Features
AV Equipment
- – PA System
- – Microphone
- – Stage
Catering
- – In-House Luxury Dining
Venue Specs
- – Dedicated Events Team
- – Cloakroom
- – Wheelchair Accessible
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