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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 theatre.
The room is dominated by a painting entitled Celestial2 painted by Anthony Whishaw RA ( www.anthonywhishaw.com) It is acrylic on canvas and measures 66 x 90 inches.
The lecture theatre
This room was originally the Meeting Room of the Society, but was partitioned in 1969, when it was divided up to make offices.
The room has now been returned to its original purpose and the suspended ceiling which hid a fine moulded ceiling removed.The lecture theatre can seat 100 and has state of the art audio-visual equipment. It has a giant projection screen with slave plasma screens on either side. There is a hearing loop for the hearing impaired and room for two wheelchairs.There is provision for up to 6 laptops on the dais so that at multi-speaker events speakers can setup prior to the start of the meeting. TV broadcasts, through a satellite receiver, can be shown on the screens.
The Executive Secretary’s Office
The office of the Executive Secretary is also used as a small meeting room for up to six people. It contains a display cabinet, designed on the old Radcliffe Observatory at Oxford, displaying some of the Society’s more interesting items.
Just outside the office is the Society’s Royal Charter from 1831. It is rather plain, unlike some of the coloured hand-painted charters of the same time.
This room was originally the Meeting Room of the Society, but was partitioned in 1969, when the Royal Society moved out of Burlington House and the accommodation was reallocated in various ways. The room was divided up to make offices for the Executive Secretary and his PA, and a smaller Fellows Room so it was rather distorted in scale; unfortunately, a suspended ceiling hide the rather grand original molded ceiling.
The room as now been returned to it's original purpose but the seating has been changed round and is now in an East-West direction instead of the original North-South arrangement. The newly installed lecture theatre can seat 100 and has state of the art audio-visual equipment. It has a giant projection screen with slave plasma screens on either side. There is a hearing loop installed for the hearing impaired and room for two wheelchairs at the front. There is provision for up to 6 laptops on the front desk so that at multi speaker meetings speakers may setup their presentations prior to the start of the meeting and so delay change overs. A Sky satellite receiver is also installed so that live news items of scientific interest can be shown.
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