Hire The Reading Room, Trinity House (EC3N 4DH)

The Reading Room is adjacent to The Library and is frequently used as one of its two breakout rooms for drinks for up to 20 or an intimate seated lunch or dinner. It contains the famous painting of Churchill and Roosevelt at the 1941 Atlantic Conference on board HMS Prince of Wales by Raymond R Wilson. Upon one of the desks is a sextant presented to Admiral Sir Richard Collinson, later to become Deputy Master, who was dispatched to look for John Franklin who was lost trying to find the North West Passage in the 1840's. In a glass cabinet there are two antique telescopes and amongst other items of interest in the room are the clock and barometre of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Nimrod, two cannon balls from the 1760's, and a sextant made on Tower Hill in 1757. An unusual 'curve of daylight' acetylene-regulating clock is housed here, having been taken out of the Berry Head Lighthouse in 1994 after 88 years of service.