Venue Hire
Our two venues Lake Gallery and Dilston Gallery are set within Southwark Park in Bermondsey, adjacent to the River Thames with excellent transport links.
- Film location & photo shoots
- Wedding ceremonies
- Corporate events & dinners
- Performance, dance & theatre productions
- Gigs & concerts
- Community events
- Meetings & study days
- Film screenings
- Talks & seminars
Southwark Park Galleries is a registered charity managed by the Bermondsey Artists’ Group. Income generated from venue hire goes directly towards our community learning and exhibition programmes. Both venues are fully accessible. Local community and arts organisations are eligible for discounts, please get in touch.
Lake Gallery and Dilston Gallery are not available for hire for visual art exhibitions, wedding receptions or private parties.
For prices, availability or to arrange a site visit, please contact us on 020 7237 1230 or hires@southwarkparkgalleries.org
WEDDING CEREMONIES AT DILSTON GALLERY
Our Grade II Listed Dilston Gallery is one of the most distinctive venues in London for your wedding – built in 1911 as a mission church for Clare College Cambridge, it is one of the first poured concrete buildings in England. Designed by renowned architects Sir John Simpson and Maxwell Ayrton, it was described at the time of its opening as ‘the finest modern church in South London’.
The church closed in the early 1950s – now fully deconsecrated – then used for a time in the 1970s by a group of Royal College of Art students as artist studios and since 1999 Southwark Park Galleries has forged a reputation for programming the space with ambitious, experimental and multidisciplinary work by contemporary artists.
Licensed to host wedding and civil partnership ceremonies, our historically significant and atmospheric Dilston Gallery is a unique place to host your special day.
We are so pleased to announce that we are reopening up bookings for weddings in summer 2025 and initial enquiries for summer 2026. Bookings are for a 2.5 hour period for ceremonies only and can take place on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays on the dates and times below.
Fee: £1,000 + VAT
Dates: 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28 June 2025 // 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12 July 2025
Times: 10am-12.30pm, ceremony at 11am // 1.30-4pm, ceremony at 2.30pm // 5-7.30pm, ceremony at 6pm
Please contact us to register your interest and for more information: weddings@southwarkparkgalleries.org. An open day for site visits will be arranged for late February and late March 2025.
We are delighted to be working with our neighbours The Bermondsey Social Club, a wonderful location for the perfect wedding reception, 5 minutes walk from our gallery. Details of their exclusive package offers will be announced in the new year.
Photography © Joasis Photography
DILSTON GALLERY
A Grade II listed building designed in 1911 by Sir John William Simpson and Maxwell Ayrton. Renovated in 2010 by award winning architects Walter Menteth Ltd. The main space is 190 square metres with a 9 metre-high rafted ceiling, a raised stage, changing rooms and a 3 phase power supply. The glass fronted entrance and reception area is 56 square metres with panoramic views of Southwark Park.
Suzi Ruffle performs live at Dilston Gallery, within Peter Liversidge’s As Sculpture // A Day of Stand Up Comedy (2017). Photograph by Mischa Haller courtesy the artists and Southwark Park Galleries.
LAKE GALLERY
An airy modern building fully renovated in 2000 next to the park’s lake. The main space is L-shaped measuring 96 square metres. The interconnected Salter Space is 30 square metres and both have a ceiling height of 4.2 metres. The reception and foyer area opens onto a private community garden through two glass double doors.
