Hire a room on Lewisham High Street

The crypt room

The room most people want. It sits at the east end of the crypt, and although it is below the church it works as a space in its own right — you need never go through the church to use it.

• Its own entrance, at street level. Your people arrive straight into your room. Nobody walks through a service, and a service does not walk through you.
• A kitchen next door, with counters and an extraction hood — enough to make tea for a room, or to plate up food brought in.
• Its own WCs, one of them accessible, off the same lobby, so nothing sends people wandering.
• It holds up to 30 people. That is the limit set by our fire risk assessment rather than a rough guide, so it is a firm number — but it is a comfortable 30 rather than a squeeze.
• Arched windows on both long walls under a vaulted ceiling a little over two and a half metres high. It is a Victorian undercroft and it looks like one, which people tend to like more than they expect to.

It suits classes, rehearsals, meetings, training days, children’s parties, support groups and anything else that wants a plain, self-contained room with a kettle and a door of its own. Regular weekly bookings are very welcome.

The rest of the crypt is not available — it is the historic burial vaults, and it stays closed.

The church

The nave is hired less often and is worth asking about. It is a resonant, handsome space in the middle of Lewisham that holds up to 250 people — again the figure from our fire risk assessment — and it is available for:

• Concerts

  Choirs, orchestras and bands use it through the year. The acoustic is generous and there is an organ.

• Conferences

  Daytime use for meetings and away days, in a room nobody falls asleep in.

• Filming

  We host location shoots. An eleven-hundred-year-old site twenty minutes from central London.

The church is in use for worship, so availability depends on the diary — but there is more room in it than people assume, particularly on weekday evenings. How the 250 sit depends on the layout you want, so tell us what you have in mind and we will work it out with you.

The kitchen

When the rooms are already taken

These are the hours already booked in the next 12 weeks. A date that is not listed is not yet booked — which is not the same as being free. This is a working parish church, and services, weddings and funerals are arranged separately and are not shown here. Please ask, using the form below, and we will confirm whether we can say yes.

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This goes to the churchwardens, who look after the building diary. Or write to [email protected] directly.