Up to 60 Guests
Drawing Room
This former Freemasons lodge is one of our most traditional rooms with extensive wood paneling. However, it can be styled to suit your requirements. Versatile to create traditional occasions or host a unique event space, perfect for smaller function hire.
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Up to 140 Guests
Gallery
The Gallery maintains regal qualities, offering a most luxurious event space. Hosting perfect condition original features such as a central fireplace, oak panelled walls and plaster cornices. Available for banquets and private dinner parties, or as a reception area for your guests before dining in any of the other suites. Additionally the gallery is also ideal for fashion shows as the long, rectangular shape of the gallery is perfect for a central catwalk.
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Up to 60 Guests
The Club Room
The Club Room provides a special setting for intimate dinners or smaller meetings. This magnificent room hosts a round table in the centre. Superbly decorated with beautifully finished oak panelled walls, intricate plaster work on the ceiling and a marble fireplace being the focal point. The Club Room makes an excellent space for weddings and conferences, located adjacent to the Gallery and Drawing room.
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Up to 60 Guests
The Library
The Library is another room with multiple functions, much like the Club Room. It can be booked as an intimate standalone space or as an ancillary room for larger events. It has a feature black marble fireplace and pointers to its Freemasons past, including in the old books that line the bookshelves.
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up to 140 guests
Museum
This room radiates a historic atmosphere and provides an interesting backdrop to any business meeting, conference or dinner. The Museum is directly above the Gallery. Thus, also ideal for fashion shows, as a runway can be assembled in the long rectangular main room. The space can be expanded for buffets or conferences, due to through doors connecting smaller adjoining rooms.
Up to 60 Guests
The Study
This is one of the more intimate rooms available in Manchester Hall. Its size and shape are optimized for smaller, off-site business meetings. Hot beverages, such as tea and coffee can be provided, for corporate meetings in the study.
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Up to 150 Guests
Goulburn Lodge
The Goulburn Lodge Room, maintains most associations with the buildings Freemason’s history. This distinctive room includes many of the original Freemasons features such as; wood paneling and seating running along each wall, chequerboard flooring and the all-seeing Eye of Providence within the intricate plasterwork on the ceiling. Providing a truly unique event space in the heart of Manchester.
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Up to 300 Guests
Goulburn Suite
The Goulburn Suite consists of three separate rooms, along with an exclusive bar, making it perfect for larger parties. The main room in the Goulburn suite is adorned with a giant chandelier and vast domed ceilings. Thus, one of our most breathtaking rooms. The antique mirrored walls add to the immense feeling of space, the Goulburn Suite can accommodate for up to 400 guests.
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Up to 50 Guests
Lounge
The Lounge has a regal quality that has been perfectly maintained since the building was first opened. The Lounge provides luxurious versatility. The room can be used for dining or as a reception area for your guests, before dining in other suites.
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up to 500 guests
John Rylands Rooftop Terrace
With rooftop views, outdoor terraces and your own private bar, John Rylands Terrace is the larger section of our rooftop and can accommodate up to 500 guests. Perfect for corporate bookings or grand celebrations, our rooftop terrace is available for hire all year round.
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