Our beautiful spaces at the Newington Green Meeting House are now available for hire, offering a historic setting for your wedding, performance, party, seminar or other event. Please email Savannah to find out more.

The whole venue may also be rented out, and accommodates up to 150 guests for weddings and 75 guests for other events.

You can view a video tour of the building, and view each room in 3D. To enquire about any aspect of renting our space, please contact New Unity's Rentals Manager – Savannah – on this address.

Venue-wide features include:

• 5.0 GHz Wi-Fi

• 60 stackable chairs (30 of which are upholstered with seat and back cushions)

• Eight folding tables which each seat 8 people

• Step-free access including an accessible toilet on the ground floor

• Three additional toilets and a shower on the basement level

• External security CCTV

• A fully equipped kitchen

• Extensive AV equipment

Until further notice, all events must adhere to our rules regarding safety, hygiene and social distancing, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. This may mean restrictions on the number of guests and curfew times.

Main Hall

The Main Hall is a glorious, renovated 18th century chapel hall with original pews and a modern, accessible, five-metre-wide stage, with lighting and a professional sound system. The Main Hall accommodates up to 130 people standing or seated. It would be ideal for a wedding ceremony, book launch, lecture or film screening. Please note: the stage in the Main Hall cannot be used for group meetings involving lots of chairs.

Exclusive use of the Main Hall and Gallery costs £150ph, plus mandatory cleaning fee of £19, and a £300 refundable damage deposit.

Wollstonecraft Room

The Wollstonecraft Room is on the first floor. It has tea and coffee points with fridge and storage, and an upright piano. It best suits a book club or meeting, a small reception, a dance or meditation class, or an intimate music performance (i.e., no loud or amplified sound). It measures approximately 8.2 by 4.0 metres. No more than 30 people are permitted in the Wollstonecraft Room at any time.

Hiring the Wollstonecraft Room costs £55ph, plus mandatory cleaning fee of £19, and a £300 refundable damage deposit.

Price Room

The Price Room is on the ground floor. It has an attached, fully fitted kitchen, and would be ideal for a book club or meeting, a small reception, or a small class. The Price Room can accommodate a maximum of 16 people seated, or 30 standing.

Hiring the Price Room costs £40ph, plus mandatory cleaning fee of £19, and a £300 refundable damage deposit.

Barbauld Room

The Barbauld Room is downstairs. It offers tea and coffee points with fridge and storage, a mirror wall, and a television linked to the stage camera. It could be used for any small event, but it is ideal as a spillover or green room for events on stage in the Main Hall. It is approximately 5.2 by 3.5 metres, and can accommodate a maximum of 20 people seated, or 30 standing.

Hiring the Barbauld Room costs £40ph, plus mandatory cleaning fee of £19, and a £300 refundable damage deposit.

For further information about spaces at Newington Green Meeting House, please do not hesitate to email rental@new-unity.org.

Want to visit? Email Savannah to visit in person – or check out the 360 degree tour below!

Weddings

Newington Green Meeting House provides a welcoming, historic setting, and New Unity offers services conducted in accordance with our principles of radical inclusivity, Dissent, justice and compassion. We were the first religious establishment in Britain to refuse to marry any couples until we could marry all couples. We offer wedding services for people from all walks of life, including same-sex and interfaith couples.

We are able to provide wedding ceremonies, civil partnerships, and wedding blessings for mixed-sex and same-sex couples. A marriage blessing is a non-official ceremony without legal registration, acknowledging the commitment already made between the couple during a civil ceremony.

To discuss wedding packages and pricing, please contact rental@new-unity.org.

What we ask of you

All playing of music and serving of alcohol must stop at midnight (00:00). All setting up, clearing away and tidying must be included in your hire times, and we ask that you leave promptly. Please leave the venue as you found it. Our cleaning fees pay for a next-day refresh of our venue, not a deep clean. They are non-negotiable, and listed in full above.

Please feel free to contact rental@new-unity.org to arrange a site visit.

The Newington Green Meeting House is an accessible, wheelchair-friendly building. Below is a list of dimensions for some of the building’s most heavily used areas.

Please note: the below measurements have been updated in line with capacity restrictions in place due to the coronavirus (Covid 19) pandemic.

Main building – stage:

Down to ramp: 283cm

Down to wall: 373cm

Width: 510cm

Main building – seating:

Left-hand booths – 

Front row L-shape: 210cm/100cm  

Space for wheelchair access to booth: 110cm

Space for wheelchair inside booth: 100cm/200cm

Right-hand booths – 

Back single bench: 135cm

Back middle L-shape: 128cm/153cm

Front middle L-shape: 128cm/150cm

Front row U shape: 137cm/165cm/137cm

Centre benches: 567cm/80cm

Back bench (width): 70cm

Mary Wollstonecraft room:

East and west walls: approx 820cm

North wall: 380cm 

South wall: 530cm

Lift:

94cm wide, 142cm long

We are able to provide measurements for other parts of the building, as well as scaled floorplans. Please email comms@new-unity.org if you would like to be sent these.