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History for hire! Beautiful medieval church opens up to weddings, meetings and more

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A wonderful wedding venue… the NCEM on Walmgate. Photographs: Jim Poyner

One of York’s beautiful medieval buildings is available for hire – and now it couldn’t be easier.

Hiring the NCEM

National Centre for Early Music, St Margaret’s Church, Walmgate, York YO1 9TL

Call Hannah Witcomb on 01904 632220

Email Hannah: [email protected]

More details

York’s National Centre For Early Music has launched a brand new website with information about hiring the Grade I listed former church for wedding receptions, conferences, meetings, concerts and recordings.

The website at hire.ncem.co.uk is full of useful information about hiring the 14th century building and includes testimonials from previous clients.

Hannah Witcomb, Operations and Events Manager, said that there is a tremendous amount of interest locally, regionally and nationally in hiring the building, which is in great demand.

She said:

The NCEM is such a versatile space and lends itself so well to the different needs of clients and guests.

Wedding couples can’t speak highly enough and really put their personal stamp on the building for their special day.

Conference organisers are impressed with our state-of-the-art conference facilities and our recording artists enjoy the natural acoustic of the church.

Inside the NCEM

recording-ncem-yorkThe NCEM can seat up to 120 for a formal dinner and 140 for drinks receptions or evening parties.

For conferencing the building can hold a maximum of 120 and there are a variety of different room layouts, plus there are two break-out spaces available.

Special offer

The NCEM can seat up to 120 for a formal dinner
The NCEM can seat up to 120 for a formal dinner

To coincide with the launch of the new website, the NCEM is offering 50% off the room hire cost for conferences and meetings held between Monday, January 9 and Tuesday, February 28 2017. (This excludes weekend bookings).

The costs are…

Conference Hall: Full day hire reduced from £350 to £175 + VAT
Half day hire reduced from £200 to £100 + VAT

Meeting Rooms: Full day hire reduced from £150 to £75 + VAT
Half day hire reduced from £75 to £37.50 + VAT

This is a limited offer restricted to the first ten bookings.

Call 01904 632220 or email [email protected] to book