Beauly Phipps Hall | Touring Venue

BEAULY PHIPPS HALL

March 2002 Mick Andrew

General Information

Address: Phipps Hall, Station Road, Beauly, Inverness-shire IV4 7EH

Venue is on west side of Station Road (A862) just south of village centre, connected to library. Car park at venue. Venue has caretaker.
Built 1903 by Henry Phipps (business partner of Andrew Carnegie).
Capacity 196 if stage used, approx 130 if performing on floor. Non-interlocking, stacking chairs.
Mobile reception good.
Beauly has Banks & cashpoint, general store, hotels, café, Post Office, & petrol. All other services in Inverness (12 miles).

Hall Details

Hall Dimensions: 11.17M (36’8”) wide x 16.46M (54’) long. Height at side walls 4.75M (15’7”) rising to approx 6.7M (22’) at centre – roof is arched.
Stage: 7.32M (24’) wide x 4.09M (13’5”) deep. Height above 3.96M (13’), height of stage 1.12M (3’8”). No wings or crossover. Access treads off stage right. Stage has back blacks and legs & borders. FOH tabs are red.
Décor: floor polished wood with Badminton Court markings; walls dark wood panelling lower, light green upper; roof light green with mouldings & white support arches.
Get-in: through front entrance, 2 sets double doors & right angle turn, flat. Approx 20M from van loading area to stage. 1.32M (4’4”) wide x 2.08M (6’10”) high.
Acoustics slightly reverberant.
Blackout reasonable, all windows have blinds and lined curtains. Only FOH doors have windows & no curtains.
Heating by radiators.
Upright piano on stage. No smoke detectors.
Small extending ladder.

Technical

Power: 100amp 3-phase incomer. Lighting dimmer on 63amp single-phase supply. 2 x 32amp single-phase sockets in SR wing.
Small stage lighting rig – Jands 12 channel 2 preset lighting desk, 12 channels Pulsar non-patchable dimmers, 2 FOH side LX bars, 2 stage LX bars, 6 650w CCT profile spots, 6 x 650w CCT fresnels.
Small PA system – Mynob 16-4-3 mixer, Celestion & EMC amps, mounted Celestion speakers, graphic EQ, 6 mics & stands, CD player. Hard-wired multicore to FOH. Locked rack for sound equipment in SL wing.
Houselights are up-lighters switched in SR wing or switched sodium’s (switches in main entrance lobby).

Backstage