Butchers Hall

Butchers' Hall doesn't look or feel like a venue that traces its roots to 975 AD. The 2019 refurbishment turned what had been a traditional City livery hall into something that works on two levels simultaneously: heritage deep enough to impress international clients and facilities modern enough to run a hybrid conference without a hitch.

Butchers' Hall — Old Bones, New Finish

The Great Hall is the reason most people enquire. Wood panelling, natural light, and proportions that suit everything from a 160-seat dinner to a 180-delegate conference. But the real flexibility comes from having five distinct spaces across multiple floors — a rarity among livery halls, where the typical offering is two or three rooms on a single level. The Court Rooms divide via a noise-cancelling partition, the Mezzanine provides a gallery view of the Great Hall, and the ground floor adapts to whatever an event needs it to be.

The Rooftop and Bovingdons

Then there's the rooftop garden. Seventy guests, Central London views, available on its own or as part of a full-venue hire. It changes the kind of events the venue can host — summer drinks receptions, informal networking, post-conference socialising — all things that most livery halls simply can't offer. Bovingdons, the exclusive caterer, collaborates with the Butchers' Company liverymen on menus that nod to the hall's heritage without being bound by it.

Getting to Butchers' Hall

Sitting within the Barts Square development near Barbican station, the venue is well connected and fully accessible. For organisers who've assumed livery halls mean formality without flexibility, it's worth a site visit.