Weddings & Civil Partnerships
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The Sekforde offers a very special venue to celebrate weddings, civil partnerships and engagements. We want you to have the most memorable and joyous day possible.
We love hosting weddings of all shapes and sizes. We have fantastic set menus or canape menus depending on what you want from your special day, and we are on hand to help with all the special little touches that make it personal.
Not many other venues in London will pick you up from the ceremony in a 1953 Bentley, but the Sekforde is not like most other venues.
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The Sekforde is a beautiful late Georgian public house in Sekforde Street, Clerkenwell.
In 2015 the Sekforde closed for an important restoration and development project. This work was completed at the end of 2017 and the project won two prestigious awards from the Royal Institution of British Architects. The first was for outstanding architecture and the second was for sustainability. There is a state-of-the-art water source heat pump 15 meters below the pub extracting energy from the ground water. As a result, the pub uses 1/7 of the energy to heat and cool as a conventional pub.
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The Sekforde entirely supports The Sekforde House Trust which provides scholarships to remarkable students from across the world. The money generated is enough to provide seven Scholarships per year to young people who have a desire to make a positive impact in their fields in the future.
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The Sekforde Wedding Brochure
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Sekforde Street is a very peaceful complete Georgian street. We are just 500 meters from Farringdon station and Kings Cross and Angel are within easy walking distance.
34 Sekforde St, Farringdon, London EC1R
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The Grand Ballroom.
On the first floor is a grand ballroom which can accommodate 100 guests. It has been restored to what it would have looked like in 1829. With two original fireplaces, bright colours and huge windows create the perfect canvas for an elegant reception. The space is versatile, and is appropriate standing receptions of up to 120 people, or dining for up to 30.
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The Pub.
On the ground floor is a delightful welcoming traditional pub with seating for 50 guests, perfect for a casual reception.
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The Magnificent Basement.
In the basement we have created a “speak easy” era late night drinking den also known as The Magnificent Basement. The frescoes on the back wall are based on the Thomas Sekforde arms houses which Sekforde built for the poor and which still stand today in Woodbridge Suffolk. In the middle is our heat exchange system; an ice block a metre beneath your feet that powers the entire pub. The basement holds a reception for up to 80 people and dining for 25.
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Transport.
Why not arrive in style? We can send our chauffeur driven 1955 Bentley to collect you from anywhere you like in London.