Liverpool City Halls

You can hold a dinner for up to 500 or a standing event for up to 1,200 in the Great Hall at St George’s Hall, directly across the road from Lime Street station, so delegates arriving by train can walk straight in. Liverpool City Halls is the council team that hires out St George’s Hall and Liverpool Town Hall in the city centre, and it also lists Croxteth Hall, set in 500 acres of woodland. You choose your own caterer and AV company, and the team names suppliers it says already know the buildings.

Event spaces and capacities

You get a choice of room sizes from a boardroom dinner to a 1,200 guest reception without leaving the city centre. The venue names 18 spaces across St George’s Hall and Liverpool Town Hall. The Great Hall is the largest, and the venue’s hire pack for that room says figures depend on your floor plan and quotes higher limits (banquet 550, standing 1,500) than the main website. No floor areas or exhibition space figures are published. Croxteth Hall’s two suites are listed, but the venue says the hall is taken by a film production until June 2027 and will only take bookings within a three month window after that.

Capacities as published by the venue on its St George’s Hall, Town Hall and Croxteth Hall pages, checked 5 November 2026. A dash means the venue does not publish that figure. The Concert Room’s 500 seats split into 122 on the floor, 280 tiered and 98 on balcony benches. The Rose Room in the Register Office takes 2 guests. St George’s Hall also lists the North Hall, Mandela Room, Elmes Room, Cockerell Room, Civil Court, Suites 3 and 4 and the Stable Gallery without capacities.

Getting there and parking

You save delegates a transfer because St George’s Hall sits opposite Lime Street station’s main entrance, which the venue puts at a four minute walk, with Liverpool Central seven minutes away and Queen Square bus station four minutes away. Liverpool Town Hall is five minutes on foot from Moorfields and James Street stations. The venue does not publish on-site parking numbers. It points drivers to car parks on Dale Street, Victoria Street and at St John’s Shopping Centre for St George’s Hall, and to NCP Moorfields, NCP Rumford Street and Q-Park Dale Street for the Town Hall. Blue Badge bays on William Brown Street are council owned, cobbled and cannot be reserved. Suppliers load through the van passage at the top of William Brown Street into a goods lift 1.82m wide and 2.58m deep, and the Great Hall floor takes up to 75kg per square metre. For access, St George’s Hall has a Changing Places toilet, and Liverpool Town Hall has ramps, lifts and assistive listening devices on request.

Catering, AV and accommodation

You are free to bring your own caterer, but the venue charges a 20% commission on the total catering fee and asks caterers for local authority registration, liability insurance, an environmental health rating and HACCP, food safety and sustainability policies. Its trusted supplier page names 15 caterers and a shortlist of AV firms. The Great Hall has no AV installed, so you hire everything in. The Concert Room has an Allen and Heath SQ6 desk, two wireless microphones and four Meyer Sound speakers, but you pay for your own technician. The Willis organ costs £500 plus VAT to hire, and the Steinway grand carries an extra charge. The venue’s catering team runs the North Hall bar, and events under 200 may pay to open it. There are no bedrooms.

What to ask before you book

• The Great Hall page says 500 banquet and 1,200 standing, while its hire pack says 550 and 1,500. Which limit applies to your floor plan?
• Great Hall guests climb the steps of the East Portico. Which alternative entrance and lift will your step free guests use, and does the North Hall entrance cost extra?
• Wheelchair users in the Concert Room can only sit on the floor seating. How many of the 122 floor seats can you convert to wheelchair spaces?
• How does the 20% catering commission apply to drinks, staffing and hire charged by your caterer?
• Will a civic event, tour or Register Office ceremony be running in St George’s Hall during your build or event?
• If you hold a Town Hall dinner with a stage, can the Large Ballroom still seat 180 once your AV is in?

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Sources: St George’s Hall, Liverpool Town Hall, Croxteth Hall, Great Hall venue details, Concert Room venue details, trusted suppliers, plan your visit, accessibility, checked 5 November 2026.