Wedding Photographer The Ned London — Lutyens’ Banking Hall, the City of London and the Poultry Building
The Ned is London’s most architecturally distinguished City hotel wedding venue — the former Midland Bank headquarters at 27 Poultry in the City of London, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and built 1924–39 in the classical grand-banking-hall mode, whose 100-metre-long principal banking hall (the largest banking hall in the world when built) with its eight marble columns supporting the coffered roof provides a wedding venue of City mercantile grandeur of international architectural significance. For The Ned wedding photography, the principal banking hall’s sequence of marble columns, coffered ceiling and mosaic floor provide ceremony and reception portrait settings of 1930s City of London banking grandeur, supplemented by the roof terrace’s views of the City’s glass towers and the residential treatment of the former safe-deposit vaults and banking offices.
The Banking Hall, the Soho House Restaurants and the Vault Corridor
The Ned’s principal banking hall — the Lutyens-designed 100-metre hall of Portland stone columns, the green marble banking counters and the coffered ceiling’s classical plasterwork — provides a ceremony and reception portrait setting of 1930s Art Deco classicism at a scale that few London wedding venues can match. The former vault corridor and the basement’s safe-deposit boxes converted to the Ned’s Club — the polished steel vault doors and the arched low-ceilinged vault passage below the banking hall — provide dramatic underground portrait settings of banking heritage character. The eight restaurant and bar venues in the banking hall podium provide varied atmospheric evening portrait backdrops.
The City Rooftop, the Mansion House View and the Poultry Intersection
The Ned’s rooftop pool deck and bar — the converted rooftop of the Lutyens building above the banking hall’s roof, with the views of the City’s glass towers (the Gherkin, the Walkie-Talkie and the Cheesegrater visible north and east) and the Mansion House’s classical dome visible across Poultry — provides a rooftop pool deck portrait setting of City of London commercial grandeur. The Poultry intersection below the Ned — where the Lutyens’ Portland stone building occupies the triangular island site between Poultry, Queen Victoria Street and the Bank junction — provides exterior City portrait settings with the Mansion House, the Royal Exchange and the Bank of England’s rotunda visible within 100 metres of the hotel entrance.