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Saltmarket Hall

Hire the hall

A chapel for your night

Concerts and conferences, choirs and launches, dinners for a hundred and eighty. We set the room, light it and run the bar; you bring the people.

The Nave set for a dinner: three long oak tables with white linen and candles under the brick arches.

The rooms

Three rooms, each through its own door

Book one, or the whole building. Capacities are with the fire officer’s blessing.

The Nave from the gallery during an evening concert: a string quartet lit on the low stage under the brick arches, the audience in shadow.

The Nave

A room built for voices, now for every kind of music. The stage sits low under the east arch, the gallery runs round three sides, and nobody is more than nineteen rows from the front.

What The Nave holds
Seated rows380
Standing600
Long tables180
Cabaret140
The Vestry set for a talk: sixty wooden chairs in rows, an oak lectern and two tall arched windows with morning light.

The Vestry

Two tall windows onto the river, a brick wall and a good piano. Our talks happen here, and so do most of the city’s choir rehearsals.

What The Vestry holds
Seated rows60
Boardroom24
Long tables40
The Yard on a summer evening: festoon lights over a walled brick courtyard, a small bar under an arch and people with drinks.

The Yard

Brick walls, a fig tree, the bar under the old coach arch and lights strung across. Braziers on cold nights; the doors to the Nave stay open on concert nights.

What The Yard holds
Standing150
Seated80

In the price

Set, lit and looked after

Every booking comes with the furniture, the house sound and light, and one of us in the building from the first chair to the last.

Chairs, tables and staging
400 chairs, 24 long oak tables, a stage in six pieces. We set it to your plan before you arrive.
Sound, light and a technician
A house PA, a lighting rig on the trusses, a Steinway in the Nave and a technician on every evening booking.
A kitchen for your caterer
Bring anyone on our list of six Norwich caterers, or your own with their certificate.
The bar, run by us
Licensed until 00:30. Your choice of wines from our list, local beer and cider on tap.
The foyer with its oak counter and brass lamp, ready for guests.

Rates

Day and evening rates

RoomWeekday dayWeekday eveningSaturdaySunday
The Nave08:00–17:00 / 18:00–23:30; Saturday is the whole day£1,150£950£2,400£1,800
The VestryAlso by the hour, £40, for rehearsals£240£180£420£320
The YardOnly with the Nave or the Vestry; the bar is ours–£400£600£500
The whole hallNave, Vestry, Yard and the foyer, exclusive£1,500£1,350£3,200£2,400

All rates exclude VAT. Charities and community groups pay 40% less on weekdays. A technician is included for every evening booking of the Nave.

Enquire

Tell us about the day

Megan answers within two working days with the dates that are free and a price. A viewing is any Tuesday, 10:00 to 16:00.

Rooms

Megan answers within two working days.

Hiring, asked

How far ahead should I book?

Saturdays in summer go a year ahead, weekday evenings often a month. Ask; we hold a date for two weeks without a deposit.

Can we bring our own caterer?

Yes, with their food hygiene certificate and insurance. Or choose from our list of six Norwich caterers who know the kitchen.

Can we bring our own drinks?

No; the bar is ours and pays for the building. You choose from our list, and we can do a set price per head.

How loud can it be, and how late?

Amplified music until 23:30, the bar until 00:30 on Fridays and Saturdays. We have neighbours across the river.

What deposit do you take?

A quarter of the hire to confirm, the rest four weeks before. Cancel more than three months ahead and we return the deposit.