Our venues and facilities provide the perfect setting for every occasion, from business meetings and conferences to special events and community gatherings. Combining flexible spaces, modern amenities, and outstanding support services, we deliver professional, welcoming environments designed to help your event run smoothly and leave a lasting impression.
Whatever the size or purpose of your booking, our versatile facilities offer the space, comfort, and quality you need to make it a success.
The Great Hall, built in the early 1900s, with its two reception rooms, Arthur Marshall and Cecil Lewis Rooms, is a landmark in the town and a popular venue for weddings, conferences, concerts, banquets, balls and lectures.
The Great Hall can seat up to 250 people with a further 150 in the gallery. Suitable seating arrangements for dining can also be facilitated at round or long tables. Audio visual equipment can be made available upon request.
The Arthur Marshall and Cecil Lewis reception rooms sit alongside the Great Hall. Both can be booked for smaller meetings, events or receptions. Both rooms seat up to 80.
The Common Room has an attractive room with its own bar area, opening out on to a paved patio and private garden. The Common Room is ideal for smaller functions and weddings seating up to 80. There is also a private dining room, seating up to 50 people.
The 264 seat Stahl theatre is situated on West Street in the heart of Oundle town. This attractive chapel building was converted into a theatre commemorating the generous bequest of Rudolphe Stahl (OO). It opened its doors to the public in March 1980. It is an ideal venue for a comprehensive drama course that includes constructing and painting sets, stage management, costumes, make-up, lighting and sound, as well as acting and directing. The Stahl regularly hosts performances of all kinds including screenings for the Oundle Cinemas.
The Stahl TheatreOundle School’s state of the art Sports Centre boasts a unique venue for meetings, training and small events.
A large hospitality space which can be divided into 3 separate studios plus a dedicated dance studio with a sprung floor.
The combination of studios seat up to 150 guests.
For more information about Sports and Courses at the Sports Centre, visit their website directly.
Oundle School Sports CentreThis attractive building was opened in 1918 and is dedicated to the exhibition of Art with a reception area and Gallery. Major restoration work was undertaken in 2013. The interior was stripped to reveal the original oak panels which were cleaned and lightened. The display area was redesigned on the ground floor and the gallery upstairs was opened up to provide further exhibition space. It is now one of the most attractive galleries in East Anglia. The space is adaptable and suitable for activities such as poetry readings, plays and small concerts as well as exhibitions. The Gallery has also been used for informal receptions & celebrations.
Laxton House is one of the oldest buildings in Oundle, on the site of the Guild Hall attended by Oundle Schools founder Sir William Laxton over 450 years ago. The Cloisters provides a unique meeting and reception area and the Long Room can be used for concerts, lectures and smaller events seating up to 80.
The Chapel of St Anthony, consecrated in 1923, was built as a memorial to the Schools fallen of the First World War. It contains some of the most important and influential stained glass in the country, created by John Piper. The School Chapel is also home to the renowned Frobenius pipe organ. The Chapel offers a contemplative and inspirational venue for music, and is available to past pupils and staff for weddings and christenings.
Opened in 2007, SciTec is a major and ground-breaking science complex. Facilities include 16 dual classroom labs, a wind tunnel, a scanning electron microscope, a highspeed camera, a rooftop observatory, and dedicated project rooms for each individual science, housing advanced glassware as well as molecular biology and data-logging equipment.
The Patrick Engineering Centre comprises of four design studios all equipped with a class set of docking stations and large format monitors for pupils’ MS Surfaces to connect to, five open plan workshop bays, a large projects area, an advanced manufacturing suite and a materials preparation room with store. It is famous for its workspaces, which over the years have seen dozens of large projects such as cars and hovercrafts engineered and restored. The Centre is equipped with the very latest technology and is one of the only schools in the country to be able to print 3D in any material, from elastomers and rigid plastics to titanium and carbon fibre. As visitors often remark, the Patrick Engineering Centre feels nothing like a school; it is an environment in which pupils are challenged to develop their own creative problem-solving skills.
Due to the complex nature of our technical equipment in both buildings, hire is limited strictly to professionals – speak to us today to find out more
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