The Society’s apartments are situated off London’s Piccadilly, approximately half-way between Green Park and Piccadilly underground stations. Bus services 9, 14, 19, 22 and 38 pass the entrance. You may consult a Streetmap.com map by clicking here.
Also in the courtyard are the premises of four other learned...
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In the inner lobby is a ‘virtual reception’.
Leading on from the inner lobby is the building’s grand entrance hall, with a splendid staircase and a lift, with glass panels revealing striking astronomical images. In addition to the offices of the Executive Secretary and...
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The Fellows Room, previously used as the Council Room, is a very comfortable room where Fellows can work, relax or meet. It is wifi enabled for fellows to pursue Society related activities. There is a slave plasma screen over the fireplace to relay meetings from the lecture...
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The Executive Secretary's room contains a display cabinet holding some of the more interesting items that the Society has acquired. The cabinet itself was made by Mr Luke Hughes, a well-known cabinet maker and designer in London. The shape is loosely based on the building of the old Radcliffe Observatory at Oxford....
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The Council Room, which can seat 25 people around the table, formerly housed the Society’s archives which are now in the basement. The room is fitted with a plasma screen at one end which can relay meetings from the Lecture Theatre downstairs.
Also of interest: A brief history of the...
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The staircase has been stripped of its 1960s blue and white paint and returned to its original black and highlighted with gold leaf to give a truly splendid effect.
On the first floor landing is a newly commissioned window designed and produced by Sally Scott, in association with Nero...
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The first floor landing leads to the Society’s Library, the Rare Books Room, the Librarian’s office and the Herschel Room, which houses the British Astronomical Association.
Above the door to the Librarian’s office are portraits of the Reverend Lewis Evans, a great...
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