The Floral Pavilion's glass-fronted corner entrance on Marine Promenade, New Brighton, with FLORAL PAVILION lettering in relief across both faces above the automatic doors and a deep cantilevered canopy over the first-floor glazing.
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Floral Pavilion Theatre

Wirral Council's 814-seat theatre and conference centre on the promenade at New Brighton, with a studio space, the Blue Lounge Bar.

Marine Promenade, New Brighton, Wallasey CH45 2JS
Up to 814
capacity
3 spaces
hireable
Hired for weddings, conferences, functions and productions; enquire via the hire pages.
available for hire

About this venue

The Floral Pavilion is a theatre and conference centre on the promenade at New Brighton, on the Wirral peninsula, overlooking the River Mersey. Run by Wirral Council, it presents comedy, music, drama and children's shows including an annual Christmas pantomime, and describes itself as the largest and most flexible multi-space venue in Wirral. The building is glass-fronted with panoramic views over the Mersey estuary.

The main auditorium seats up to 814. The adaptable Conference Suite takes up to 550 and measures 26.5m x 14.5m, and the Blue Lounge Bar is a smaller studio space for comedy, drama and music, with its own bar, PA and stage lighting, holding up to 150 standing. Two further rooms, the Plaza Lounge and the Panoramic Lounge, are reached by lift; no capacity is published for either, so neither is listed as a bookable space.

Alongside the touring programme it runs free weekly events: Lunchtime Music in the Panoramic Lounge on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays from 12:30pm, with local performers playing piano favourites, smooth jazz and occasional folk and rock guitar sets, and the Choral Pavilion Choir, which rehearses in the Blue Lounge on term-time Tuesdays and sings popular music old and new.

For hire the venue offers catering, technical, marketing and event support, set menus and riders, a private entrance and bar area, break-out areas, level access for unloading and free car parking. The building is open daily 09:30 to 17:00, and on show days until the final curtain.

The Spaces

Theatre

Main auditorium

Capacity

Seated
up to 814

The operator's hire page gives "Capacity: Up to 814".

Conference Suite

Conference suite

Capacity

Other
up to 550

The operator's hire page gives "Capacity: Up to 550" and "26.5m x 14.5m" with no layout named, so this is recorded as an unspecified layout.

Blue Lounge Bar

Studio

Capacity

Standing
up to 150

The operator's page for this room gives "CAPACITY: Up to 150" and "LAYOUT: Standing up to 150"; it can also be set cabaret or theatre style, for which no figures are published.

Facilities

  • Bar
  • Catering / kitchen
  • Box office
  • Parking: Free car parking on site, with Blue Badge spaces immediately outside the building
  • Loading dock / load-in access: Level access for unloading

Accessibility

  • Step-free access to venue
  • Accessible toilet
  • Accessible parking
  • Wheelchair spaces / viewing area
  • Lift access
  • Assistance dogs welcome
  • Companion / carer free ticket policy
  • Other: Sennheiser infra-red assistive listening system; wheelchair spaces on Row R at every performance, booked through the box office

Gallery

The Floral Pavilion seen along the promenade, its wave-profile roof running the length of the auditorium block with the glazed entrance tower at the right. Wide view of the Floral Pavilion from Marine Promenade, with the Mersey estuary and the Liverpool waterfront in the distance behind it. The Floral Pavilion from the promenade on an overcast day, showing the red brick base, the curved roof line and the theatre's full frontage. The Floral Pavilion lit up at night, the glazed entrance tower glowing against the dark promenade.

Location

Marine Promenade, New Brighton, Wallasey CH45 2JS

Contact Information

+44 151 666 0000

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