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Dunblane Cathedral Halls
- The Cathedral Halls provide an extensive range of halls and rooms, available as a
resource for groups and organisations within the community as well as the Congregation.
Bookings can be made with the Accommodation Secretary.
Dunblane Cathedral from the south west showing the Cathedral Halls in the foreground.
The original hall, designed in 1903, was greatly enhanced in 1997 with the addition of
a suite of facilities designed by architects McEachern MacDuff of Stirling. The main
Cathedral Hall has a stage, sound amplification and loop-induction system and piano making
it a popular venu for concerts.  At one side of the main Cathedral Hall, with opening partitions to it for
flexible use, is the Cockburn Lounge used for serving coffees to visitors throughout the
year and as a display area, named in memory of the Very Rev Dr J Hutchison Cockburn who
occupied the Cathedral pulpit with such distinction. Both the Hall and Cockburn
Lounge are served by a well-equipped kitchen.
The Cathedral Office is located next to the main hall. The Ritchie Room is the name
given to a small committee room on the ground floor which recalls the Rev Alexander
Ritchie, in whose ministry the restoration of the Cathedral took place.
 The Helen Lamb Room is an octagonal room
on the ground floor, with adjoining pantry, named in recognition of the outstanding
artistic contribution to the Cathedral of Helen A Lamb.
The St Andrews Hall upstairs is the second largest hall in the Cathedral Halls complex and
is suited to musical groups, having a wooden floor and piano. The Janet Wallace Room
upstairs is furnished with easy chairs round the perimeter - Janet Wallace largely
originated the Cathedral's restoration in 1889-93. The Stratherne Room, next to the
Janet Wallace Room, is set with seats round a table for small committee meetings -
Stratherene commemorates the gift of a third of the lands for the upkeep of the Bishopric
by the third Earl of Stratherne in the 13th century (the spelling is one of the spellings
used in documents of the period).
The Leighton Room sits above both the Ritchie Room and the Helen Lamb Room, with a conical
pine roof above the octagonal section of the room and affording spectacular views from its
windows. Bishop Leighton (Bishop of Dunblane 1662-71) had his name given to this
room with its fine views because he showed great vision at a time of religious strife in
Scotland between episcopacy and presbyterianism.
The complex is served with toilet facilities, including disabled facilities, and a
baby-changing facility.
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