A forum for the built environment

We established the Gallery in the 1990s as a venue where individuals, special interest groups and professional organisations can hold lectures and exhibitions about the built environment.

Based on Cowcross Street and close to Farringdon Station, the Gallery has become one of the foremost spaces in central London for discussion, debate and exhibitions on the built environment, architecture, urbanism and heritage.

Please note The Gallery is now taking bookings for February - August 2024.

Here is a link to our current users’ guide.

Upcoming events

April

• 15 April - Mausolea & Monuments Trust - Where? When? Why? Making sense of how and why English churchyard monuments varied in design from region to region in the 17th and 18th century

• 17 April - GLIAS - Brookwood and the Necropolis Railway from Waterloo: John Clarke - The London terminus of the Necropolis Company was destroyed on the night of 16/17 April 1941

• 19 April - Irish Railway Record Society - Retro Irish Diesels – Ciaran Cooney

• 22 April - Railway Canal & Historical Society

• 23 April - Docomomo UK - Modernism and Pleasure: Geoffrey Bawa in Sri Lanka

• 24 April - IStructE History Study Group - The Restoration and Reinterpretation of Norwich Castle keep – Tom Lefever, Conisbee

• 25 April - National Heritage Ironwork Group - Writing Specifications for Heritage Ironwork – a day of practical guidance

• 25 April - Sign Design Society

• 29 April - Landscape Institute London - AGM

• 30 April - London Doughnut Economics Coalition - Network evening

May

• 3 May - Transport for New Homes - Event for Transport for New Homes volunteers

• 7 May - London Underground Railway Society

• 8 May - Newcomen Society - ‘Images of Steam Engines – 1712 to ca.1870 and later’ by Professor David Perrett

• 9 May - ASCHB - Conservation of Terracotta

• 13 May - London Omnibus Traction Society

• 15 May - The Gardens Trust - A Glimpse of the Life of William Robinson – Judith Nesbitt

• 16 May - CPRE London - AGM

• 21-23 May - Clerkenwell Design Week - Platform exhibition - emerging talent and brands about to break into the industry

• 28 May - Docomomo UK - Sydney Opera House – Peter Murray

• 29 May - GLIAS - AGM & Presentation by Prof. David Perrett – Three months’ travel in Eastern Australia & New Zealand reveals much of Industrial Archaeology Interest

• 30 May - Twentieth Century Society - Gavin Stamp's Interwar: A Celebration presented by Rosemary Hill

  June

• 4 June - ASCHB - Bill Allen talks about tesserae and the conservation of mosaics

• 5 June - SAVE! - London Festival of Architecture panel discussion

• 8 June - Cinema Theatre Association - AGM and Presentation

• 10 June - IStructE History Study Group - Kim Rochard on Hurst Castle

• 13 June- The Omnibus Society - Was London Transport an Albatross around Londoners’ Necks 1948-79? – Dr James Fowler

• 18 June - Docomomo UK - Eva Jiřičná

• 19 June - SAVE - BAR Launch

• 24 June - CPRE London - London Rivers Week: Panel event on urgent need for new wetland areas and rain gardens in London

   

To enquire about booking, please email
gallery@cowcross-street.online

The entrance to The Gallery is at the far end of the courtyard at 77 Cowcross Street.
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