Lindley Hall from the back of the hall, the whole hall washed purple for a gala, round tables laid on the parquet, the stage and two screens at the far end under the vault.

Vincent Square, Westminster

Events at Lindley Hall

Lindley Hall is the Royal Horticultural Society’s hall on Vincent Square, opened in 1904: 875 square metres of parquet under a barrel vault of glass and iron, a short walk from Victoria. We are accredited by the RHS at Lindley Hall as a full end-to-end production partner and as a caterer.

Where: Vincent Square, SW1Westminster, between Victoria and the river
Main Hall: 36m by 22m875 square metres with the annexe and balcony
The vault: 14.75m at the apexGlass and iron, daylight the length of the hall
Standing: 650Seated 630, or 390 with a stage and a reception
Theatre: 540Cabaret 480, exhibition 126 stands
Our standing: Accredited by the RHSEnd-to-end production partner and caterer

Capacities and dimensions as published by the Royal Horticultural Society.

Accredited twice by the RHS at Lindley Hall

The RHS works from an accredited supplier list at Lindley Hall, for production and for catering. We hold full accreditation on both: as the end-to-end production partner, and as a caterer.

So one team takes the hall, the show and the food, and the RHS already knows how we work in the building.

A gold seal on a dark disc reading Accredited Partner, Lindley Hall, around The Events Mill monogram.

A gold seal on a dark disc reading Accredited Caterer, Lindley Hall, around The Events Meal mark.

The roof

A glass vault you light from the floor

The first thing anyone sees at Lindley Hall is the roof. A barrel vault of glass and iron runs the full 36 metres of the hall, 14.75 metres up at the apex, and by day it fills the parquet with daylight. That is why the RHS has shown flowers under it since it opened, and why the wine trade has tasted under it since the fifties.

After dark the vault becomes the biggest surface in the building. We wash it from the floor with uplighters along both walls, and the whole hall sits inside a lit sky, blue for an arrival, purple for a gala, red for the band.

The glass barrel vault of Lindley Hall lit deep blue from below, the iron ribs and the round windows at the end of the hall picked out, lighting truss across the bottom of the frame. — The vault, washed blue from the floor.

A tall arrangement of red and orange flowers with bare branches on a wooden plinth, the vault of Lindley Hall lit purple above and the tables laid beyond. — Flowers on a plinth at the top of the hall, the vault above them.

The stage at the north end of Lindley Hall during the set-up, drum kit, keyboards and monitors under a lighting truss, the white walls lit blue. — The stage going in at the north end, under the truss.

A gala under the vault

The whole hall washed in one colour, wall to wall

The white walls and the glass take colour from one end of the hall to the other, so a gala here begins with the light. For a winter fundraising gala the whole hall went purple: the stage at the north end under the hoist and truss, round tables across the parquet, tall flowers on plinths at the top of the hall and the bars built in the hall itself. Our charity and fundraising events and The Wassails, with War Child UK show that work in full.

Lindley Hall laid for a gala, seen from beside the bar: the glass vault lit purple, tall flowers on wooden plinths, round tables with place settings, the stage and screens at the far end. — The hall from the bar end, the vault lit purple, the stage at the far end.

Round tables on the parquet, laid for ten. The flowers sit low in brass bowls so a table can talk across them, the glassware is cut, the napkins are folded on the plate and the table number stands in gold on black at head height, so a guest finds their seat from the door.

Everything the guest touches is ours. The linen, the glass, the flowers, the printed cards and the chair they sit on.

A round table laid for a gala: white cloth, cut glass, folded napkins on the plates, low flowers in a brass bowl and a gold number nine on a black card, the hall lit purple behind. — Table nine.

Cut glassware, purple glass tumblers and place cards on a white cloth, low flowers in a brass bowl and a gold table number, the rest of the hall lit purple. — Cut glass and purple tumblers, the number in gold.

A close view of the table flowers at a gala: pink and red roses, ranunculus and foliage in a low arrangement, glassware around it. — Roses and ranunculus, kept low.

A long table at a gala with a run of red and pink roses down its centre, cut glass and purple tumblers at each place, the hall lit purple. — A long table with the flowers run down its centre.

Tables at a gala seen from the mezzanine balcony, round tables laid with flowers and candles on the parquet, a screen at the top of the hall. — The tables from the mezzanine balcony.

The stage

Under the hoist and truss, a stage for a headline act

The RHS hands over a nine-metre hoist and truss with the hire, and the structure under the vault takes a serious rig. For a gala with a headline act a full concert stage goes in at the north end: moving lights and beams through haze, a mirror ball on the truss, a red wash across the whole width of the hall for the band and a white starburst for the finale.

The stage at Lindley Hall washed red from the back of the hall, a band of six playing under the vault, a white starburst behind them and the audience in silhouette. — The band from the back of the hall, the whole width washed red.

A singer in a long dress alone on the stage at Lindley Hall under five white beams of light through haze, the audience at their tables in the dark. — A singer under five beams.

An aerialist on a rope dropped from the truss, hanging horizontal above the stage, the whole end of the hall lit red. — An aerialist on a rope from the truss.

The stage at Lindley Hall washed blue with a white starburst projected across the back wall and a guitarist and singer at the front. — The starburst in blue.

Three musicians on the stage at Lindley Hall under a white starburst, the back wall and the haze lit red. — The starburst in red.

A mirror ball on the truss above the stage throwing white light across a pink wall, two musicians below it. — The mirror ball on the truss.

A host in a dark suit at the front of the stage with his arms wide, guests laughing at the tables immediately below him. — The host, working the front tables.

Two readers at a lectern at the side of the stage, lit by a single spot, the guests at their tables in the foreground. — A reading from the lectern.

Comedy from the front of the stage, readings from the lectern, a dancer loose among the tables between courses and an aerialist dropped from the truss. The hall is wide enough that an act can happen in the middle of the floor and every table still sees it.

A dancer in a leotard mid-leap on the parquet between the tables at a gala, guests watching from their seats, the floor lit blue. — A dancer on the floor between the tables.

The acts come to us with their own riders and their own sound. The stage, the monitors, the backline and the lighting are set to take whoever is on the bill that year, and the hall holds a full band at concert level with the sound managed to the boundary.

A guitarist in a hat and black playing a hollow-bodied guitar at the front of the stage, the back wall lit orange. — On the stage, the wall lit orange behind.

In the press

British Vogue at the twelfth Winter Wassail

British Vogue photographed the twelfth Wassail at Lindley Hall: Hozier, Mumford and Sons, Myles Smith and Sierra Ferrell on the stage, readings from Olivia Colman, Mo Gilligan as host, and Margot Robbie, Emerald Fennell and Gillian Anderson at the tables.

See British Vogue’s gallery from the Winter Wassail at Lindley Hall

British Vogue

From Margot Robbie to Olivia Colman, all the stars at Carey Mulligan’s winter gala for War Child.

The kitchen

Our food, cooked under the hall

The basement kitchen, eight metres by just under eight with a walk-in fridge, is where our food for six hundred is finished and plated, and the service runs up from there into the hall.

The bars are built in the hall itself, stocked and polished before the doors open.

A chef in whites and a striped apron bent over a long table of plated starters, finishing each one with a sauce from a small pot. — Plating up, course by course.

Glass for six hundred, polished on the bar before the first guest is through the door.

A barman in a white shirt and black tie polishing rows of wine glasses on the bar in Lindley Hall, the wall behind lit purple. — The glass, polished on the bar.

An awards ceremony

A city skyline across the north wall

For a professional institution’s annual awards we built a skyline across the stage end of the hall: towers in white lattice with the awards screen set into the middle of them and a starcloth behind, lit through from blue to red as the ceremony moved on. The hall seats 540 theatre-style on the RHS’s figure, and every seat sees the screen.

Lindley Hall full for an awards ceremony, a white lattice skyline across the stage end lit red with a screen in the middle and a starcloth behind, guests at round tables. — The skyline lit red, the screen in the middle of it.

The same skyline in blue earlier on, with the truss and the vault above it.

The lattice skyline and screen at the top of Lindley Hall lit blue, the truss and the glass vault above, guests seated at tables below. — The skyline in blue, the vault above the truss.

The stage end of Lindley Hall lit blue for an awards ceremony, white lattice towers either side of a screen, guests at tables in the foreground. — The stage end, from the tables.

Round tables dressed in teal cloths with white hydrangea in the centre of each, two staff setting the tables before the guests arrive. — White hydrangea on teal, before the doors.

The truss takes performers as well as lights. For the same ceremony we flew aerialists on silks from the truss, one inside a cone of white fabric lit from within, so the act happened above the tables under the vault.

An aerialist hanging upside down from white silks under the vault, arms spread wide, lit gold. — On the silks, under the vault.

An aerialist inside a tall cone of white fabric suspended from the truss in Lindley Hall, lit from within. — Inside the cone.

An aerialist in white on a silk dropped from the truss of Lindley Hall, the hall in gold light behind. — On the silk.

A rigger on a ladder against a dark wall lit red, adjusting a lamp on the truss above. — Rigging the truss.

The spaces

What exclusive hire of Lindley Hall gives you

Hire of Lindley Hall is exclusive and covers the Main Hall, the North Annexe, the Mezzanine Balcony, the organiser’s office, the basement kitchen and the café for the whole tenancy, with the hoist and truss, the venue furniture, the cloakroom and a dedicated gigabit line included. The figures are the RHS’s own.

Main Hall: 36m by 22m · 14.75m to the apex of the vault, wood parquet, floor rated at a tonne per square metre
North Annexe: 13.4m by 6.3m · the same height, off the top of the hall
Mezzanine Balcony: 16m by 4.5m · the gallery along the hall, 2.3m headroom
Basement Kitchen: 8m by 7.7m · walk-in fridge 4.6m by 2.7m
Standing reception: 650 · seated 630, 480 with dancing, 390 with a stage and a reception
Cabaret and theatre: 480 and 540 · 320 and 410 with a reception space
Exhibition: 126 stands · fashion show 500, wine tasting 84 stands
In the building: 491 chairs, 44 rounds, 160 trestles · cloakroom for 300 coats, 9m of hoist and truss

What the hall costs, and what we add

The RHS publishes its hire: £13,000 + VAT for a full day from 08:00 to 00:00, £10,000 + VAT for twelve hours and £8,750 + VAT for six, with the truss, the furniture, the cloakroom, the Wi-Fi and the duty staff included and the electrics estimated at £1,000 to £3,000 + VAT on top. Suppliers come from the RHS’s accredited list, and we are on it for production and for catering, so there is no buy-out fee on either. Our fee and the design budget sit on top of the hire. How to budget for an immersive experience sets out the three levels of investment and what each one buys.

Before Lindley Hall goes in the diary

Which parts of Lindley Hall can be hired?

Hire is exclusive. It covers the Main Hall, the North Annexe, the Mezzanine Balcony, the organiser’s office, the basement kitchen and the café for the whole tenancy, with the hoist and truss, the furniture, the cloakroom and the Wi-Fi included.

How many people does Lindley Hall take?

650 for a standing reception and 630 seated, on the RHS’s own figures. Seated with a stage and a reception space it takes 390, cabaret 480, theatre 540, and an exhibition takes 126 stands.

Is there daylight, and can the hall be blacked out?

Both. The glass vault floods the hall with daylight, and the hall blacks out fully for a show or a film. We light it either way, from the floor.

When does the build happen?

Load-in runs from 07:00 on the day of the tenancy and we schedule the build and the strike inside the hall’s hours. Where a rig needs the small hours we book the overnight hours with the RHS as part of the production, and where the brief runs past 00:00 we arrange the late licence.

Who does the food?

We do. We are accredited by the RHS as a caterer at Lindley Hall as well as its end-to-end production partner, and the basement kitchen with its walk-in fridge is where the food is finished and plated.

Where else do you produce in London?

We are an accredited partner to Westminster Abbey, listed at LSO St Luke’s, Hotel Café Royal and Waddesdon Manor, and we have built across the courtyard, galleries and terrace of Somerset House, inside the Natural History Museum and at Blenheim Palace. Charity and fundraising events sets out how we work with charities.

Tell us the date and the number

Bring us the brief, or just the date and how many are coming, and we take it from there.

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