Rooms and Facilities
The Centre at St Paul’s offers rooms and facilities unequalled in this part of Cambridge. All of the Centre’s rooms are available for hire, as is the adjoining church. Depending on their size, the Centre's rooms are ideal for individual tuition, study groups, dance classes, rehearsals, training days and seminars.
 
The Upper Hall
There is full disabled access to all parts of the building, a lift to the first floor, a wheelchair accessible toilet and loop systems in the main upstairs and downstairs halls.
Audiovisual facilities are available on request. Coffee and tea, buffet lunches for day events and more elaborate catering for wedding receptions and graduation ceremonies are part of the service the Centre offers.
 
Views of the Upper Hall
Upper Hall
The Upper Hall has a sprung wooden floor, which makes it ideal for ballet classes, dancing and drama workshops. Alternatively it can be used for lectures discos, wedding receptions and children’s parties. It seats 85 people in a theatre style configuration. From the Upper Hall there is easy access to 3 of the smaller meeting rooms – an excellent arrangement for meetings requiring seminar facilities or breakout rooms.
 
Views of the Lower Hall
The Lower Hall
Slightly smaller in size than the Upper Hall, the downstairs Lower Hall has a wooden floor and direct access to the adjoining kitchen which is fully equipped for serving and preparing hot and cold food. The Lower Hall seats up to 70 people theatre style and is a successful setting for dance and exercise classes.
 
The Lower Hall with U3A Jazz Appreciation (left) and U3A Science (right)
 
The Lower Hall is often used for dinners and receptions
TangoBar, offers Tango classes 52 weeks a year in both halls every Tuesday evening. SINCRU, a local hiphop group, runs breakdancing classes in the Upper Hall three times a week. They also hold the annual Cambridge Hip Hop Festival - including breakdancing, DJing, poppin', beatboxin' and grafitti - at the Centre in April every year.
 
Room 5 The Green Room
Smaller meeting rooms
Green Room, Yellow Room and Upper Tower Room
Each of these rooms seats 12 people and has a fixed white board and corkboard. The Centre's smaller meeting rooms are ideal for tutorial work, small discussion groups and meetings of many kinds.
Lower Tower Room
The Lower Tower Room is immediately next to the Lower Hall. It seats roughly 12 people, has a permanent white board and is used for free Internet access via Cambridge Online.
 
Kitchen facilities
The downstairs kitchen is fully equipped with everything needed to prepare and serve hot or cold food: two cookers and hobs, a microwave oven, a dishwasher, kettles, cutlery and crockery. There is a smaller kitchen with basic facilities upstairs.
 
The upstairs kitchen
 
Orchestral concert in the church U3A Choir Christmas recital in the church
Church
The present-day church, the largest space in the building, is available for hire throughout the week except Sunday mornings. It seats up to 350 people, making it an ideal auditorium for all kinds of music and performances.
 
The Church with chairs in place. They can be removed to create
a large open area suitable for dancing or exhibitions of many kinds.
 
The church is used throughout the year for group singing lessons, drama and concerts ranging from choral music to jazz bands. Several times a year, the church is the venue for a ball: all the chairs are moved to create a large open space for dancing. At other times it is used by American university students for classes or it becomes an examination room, accommodating up to 75 candidates. It has been used on numerous occasions by property developers to house exhibitions outlining proposed development schemes in the Station Road area.
The church has its own PA system and is in regular use for lectures, concerts, rehearsals, exhibitions, quiz nights and public meetings.
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