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Portsmouth Guildhall, The Lens Studio

Location pin

Portsmouth Cultural Trust, Guildhall, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, PO1 2AB - 

  • Users

    Up to
    200 guests

  • Table with chairs

    Offers
    catering

  • Delivery truck

    Internal Catering
    allowed

From the grandeur of the Main Auditorium to the intimate surrounding of the neighbouring rooms, Portsmouth Guildhall has a space to meet your needs. With its central location, the Guildhall also benefits from excellent transport links and accessibility, making it the ideal choice for your events. Whether you are planning a conference, meeting, seminar, exhibitions, business function, training, team building, networking event, dinners, award ceremonies, parties and receptions; Portsmouth Guildhall offers the best in both corporate and private party packages. Any of these functions will be made more memorable set against the backdrop of the fascinating history and stories that surround Portsmouth Guildhall.

Your booking is made effortless with an expert events team, classic facilities, excellent on-site catering services, and in-house technical specifications and support.

Over recent years the building has been transformed into one of Hampshire’s leading cultural platforms for the arts, providing a world class venue for private and commercial entertaining in the heart of the city.

Best known as the South of England’s prime live entertainment venue, Portsmouth Guildhall aims to become Hampshire’s main business hub offering a unique selection of conference halls and breakout spaces.

A fresh and versatile space for up to 200 delegates. The Lens Studio is available for presentations, conferences, meetings, and team building, dinners or party for up to 150 delegates seated or 200 standing reception.

The accessible ground floor Studio benefits from full AV and tech support, highly acclaimed on site catering and can be set in traditional or contemporary formats.

The Lens Studio

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From £480 price per day
Super speedy response
Thumbs up86% would book it again
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Capacity & layout

Standing

Standing

up to 200

Dining

Dining

up to 100

Theatre

Theatre

up to 150

Boardroom

Boardroom

up to 40

Cabaret

Cabaret

up to 72

Pricing
& opening hours

Weekly schedule
  • monday

    0:00 - 24:00

  • tuesday

    0:00 - 24:00

  • wednesday

    0:00 - 24:00

  • thursday

    0:00 - 24:00

  • friday

    0:00 - 24:00

  • saturday

    0:00 - 24:00

  • sunday

    0:00 - 24:00

Price type: Per day
  • from £480 per day

  • from £480 per day

  • from £480 per day

  • from £480 per day

  • from £480 per day

  • from £480 per day

  • from £480 per day

Catering & drinks

Catering arrangements

Catering arrangements

Refreshments

Refreshments

Alcohol

Alcohol

Amenities

Cloakroom

Cloakroom

Disabled access

Disabled access

Flipchart

Flipchart

Lectern

Lectern

Natural light

Natural light

Stage

Stage

Table / chairs included

Table / chairs included

Tea

Tea

Public transport

Public transport

Premises parking

Premises parking

Breakout rooms

Breakout rooms

Audio & visual

Sound system

Sound system

Microphone

Microphone

Projector & screen

Projector & screen

Flipchart

Flipchart

WiFi

WiFi

Other

AV & catering prices available

Space rules

Cancellation policy

Cancellation by Client Cancellations more than six months prior to the event will result in the loss of the full deposit. Cancellations between three to six months prior to the event will result in a 50% of total charge being due. Cancellations less than three months prior to the event will result in full charge being due.

Location

Reviews

  • Maria

    Invalid Date

    We recently went for comic con. They usually have good events on and this was no exception. The best toilets are definitely in the basement. They have a few bars, a main stage and various other multipurpose rooms available. It's a beautiful building and an important Portsmouth location. Very accessible.

  • Eduardo

    February 2025

    The Guildhall is everything a venue should be, aside from all the facilities, the people working there were amazing. We came over for a concert and when we needed help with something the head of security went out of his way to sort it. All the staff were really nice about everything, even as us two foreigners stumbled around cluelessly Thank you for this amazing experience guys!

  • Teodor Ivanov Zhelyazkov

    Invalid Date

    Great place for concerts, stand up comedy graduation ceremonies and other type of performances. The Lord Mayor offices are here as well as the City Council chamber. The Guildhall hosted the International Comic Con for first time in 2018 and they will do so again in 2019.

  • Ronald Leacy (Bigbadron)

    January 2025

    Great show, sound was excellent. Venue is a bit tired, seats not great, limited leg room but all in all an enjoyable visit and excellent show

  • Tim

    January 2025

    Saw The Holiday with live orchestra.. The venue was nice but the Heat was rediculous, someone obviously put the heating on full which ruined the whole evening.

The Lens Studio

British pound symbol
From £480 price per day
Super speedy response
Thumbs up86% would book it again
Guests count