The Bloomsbury
/ About
Sir Edwin Lutyens designed this Great Russell Street building in 1928 as the YWCA's Central Club, and its bones still show: Corinthian pilasters flank the doorways, a double-height entrance hall sits behind them, and the interiors he drew for London's emancipated women in the 1930s survive as the frame for a very different kind of hospitality. The Doyle family relaunched it as The Bloomsbury after the 2007 Jurys Doyle split, keeping the Lutyens spiderback chairs and parquet floors and building the hotel's private-event programme around the rooms he left behind — the George V Hall's hand-painted travel-themed wallpaper, Queen Mary Hall's Waterford crystal chandeliers, and the deconsecrated chapel that gives The Chapel its double-height ceiling and stained glass.
Dalloway Terrace, the flower-draped al fresco dining room under a retractable roof, and The Coral Room, a coral-walled salon bar built around a sweeping marble counter and Murano chandeliers, are the two spaces most written about, but the private-hire roster runs deeper: the underground Bloomsbury Club stays open late with AV built in for live music, the book-lined Seamus Heaney Library was opened by the poet himself in 2011, and the Tavistock Suites offer a blank-canvas lower-ground-floor room for anything a client wants to build in it.
For a DJ-led evening, the pairing that works is the Coral Room or Bloomsbury Club for the reception and George V Hall or Queen Mary Hall for the dinner and dancing that follows — two ballroom-scale rooms in a single central London address, each with its own separate bar.
/ Rooms Available
George V Hall
Exclusive HireThe largest room in the hotel, its show-stopping hand-painted wallpaper wrapping the entire ground-floor ballroom in a lake scene of tropical botanicals inspired by King George V's travels, under Waterford crystal chandeliers.
Queen Mary Hall
Exclusive HireA second-floor ballroom refurbished with a custom Adam Ellis Studio wallpaper of a dusky English garden, Waterford crystal chandeliers and its own separate bar area, built for large-scale dinners and dancing.
The Coral Room
Exclusive HireA glamorous salon bar defined by vivid coral walls, Murano chandeliers and a sweeping marble bar, flooded with natural light by day and lively by night.
The Tavistock Suites
Exclusive HireA blank-canvas, fully air-conditioned lower-ground-floor room with partial natural daylight, built for flexibility and split as needed into Tavistock 1 and Tavistock 2.
The Bloomsbury Club
Exclusive HireAn underground bar in rich dark wood with a covered outdoor terrace, open late with AV built in for live music and a weekend jazz programme.
Trellis Room
PrivateA stylish, naturally lit dining room suited to networking dinners and festive banquets, fully air-conditioned with AV built in.
The Seamus Heaney Library
PrivateA book-lined room named for the Nobel Prize-winning poet, who personally opened it in July 2011. Wood-panelled with parquet floors, Lutyens-designed spiderback chairs and a long oak table, adjacent to The Chapel.
The Chapel
PrivateA deconsecrated Lutyens-designed chapel recalling the building's YWCA origins, with double-height ceilings, original architectural detail and magnificent chandeliers.
Dalloway Terrace
Exclusive HireA flower-draped al fresco dining terrace that changes its floral installation with the seasons, heated year-round with a retractable roof and abundant natural light.
Bedford Studio 2
PrivateA versatile, fully air-conditioned lower-ground-floor studio suited to smaller corporate presentations, training sessions or board meetings.
Bedford Studio 4
PrivateA fully air-conditioned lower-ground-floor studio offering flexible boardroom or theatre-style layouts for corporate meetings and workshops.
/ Perfect For
/ Features
AV Equipment
- – Sound System
- – Projector
Catering
- – In-House Luxury Dining
- – Bespoke Menus
- – Cocktail Programme
Venue Specs
- – Dedicated Events Team
- – Air Conditioned
- – Outdoor Terrace
- – High-Speed Wi-Fi
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