What is the hall?
The Memorial Hall consists of a main hall and a small meeting room and is equipped with folding tables and a number of chairs for the use of our patrons.
The hall dimensions are: -
- 16.2m x 7.2m (117.3 sqm)
- 91 sqm of this area is laid to sprung oak flooring (re-laid in 2021)
This hall does not have high ceilings and is therefore not suitable for racquet sports or inflatable castles etc.
The meeting room is 4.3m x 3.3m
There is a fully equipped kitchen which can be hired with the Hall with a separate charge.
Disabled access is via a ramp from the car park and disabled toilet facility is provided alongside both ladies and gents facilities.
There is ample car parking space for most users.
At the time of writing, we remain subject to local COVID regulations
Where is the hall?
Click on the link below for a detailed map of where the hall is situated.
The History of the hall.
At the end of the second world war the local ‘Welcome Home Committee’ determined that a pre-war community hall scheme be revived with the aim of “providing a more permanent recognition of the services of all our members of the Forces”. Thus, the Memorial Hall was born.
Hard working fund raising, generous local benefactors and the provision of a site by the ‘National Council of Social service’ quickly brought this project to fruition. In October 1950 an appeal was made to the local population for fundraising to ‘fit out’ the building which, by then, was only a shell. Today the Memorial Hall, true to its name, still bears a plaque to the fallen of these parishes.
The Memorial Hall has, for much of the past 70 years, been managed by a group of volunteer Trustees who gave selflessly of their time in order to manage and maintain the Hall for the benefit of the local communities. The Hall is a registered Charity and survives solely by the income from hire charges.
In late 2019 the Trustees of the Magor and Undy Community Hub (MUCH) were approached by the Hall Trustees who wished to retire and hand over to a new team. The Trustees of MUCH immediately saw the advantages of developing the Hall alongside its work to promote the development of a larger and more flexible community hub on the ‘Three Fields’ site.
Old Undy school, showing the end of the Memorial Hall on the right.
We are committed to retaining the village hall ‘feel’ of the Memorial Hall and are actively encouraging local groups to consider using the facilities for clubs, meetings and parties. In 2020 we embarked upon a major refurbishment project which has included: -
We are extremely grateful for the support of The National Lottery who funded 50% of the flooring project cost.
We continue to respect the reason that the Hall was built, and, to that end, we now lay a wreath each year at the Remembrance Service in Magor village square.
Our generation might not have endured a World War, but we have certainly been tested as a community throughout the recent pandemic. As we begin reopening in 2021 we look forward to seeing you all at the Community Hall using its facilities as was envisaged all those years ago. The Hall is there for the community's use, in perpetuity and there is no likelihood of it being developed for housing in the foreseeable future. We, the Trustees, are open to new ideas and new clubs to make use of this historic building.
Please note than Monmouthshire County Council regulations allow the trustees of the hall to hold up to 15 events per year with an alcohol licence. In addition to this, groups booking the hall can obtain their own alcohol licences for events.