The Old School Gallery

The Old School Gallery

An art gallery in a converted old schoolhouse with a lovely café attached, serving good coffee and cake alongside changing exhibitions of regional artists.

Address:

The Old School House, Foxton Road, Alnmouth, Alnwick, NE66 3NH
Call:
01665 830554

Hours:

Daily: 10am - 4pm

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Good to Know

The Old School Gallery is an independent gallery in Alnmouth's former village school on Foxton Road. It exhibits and sells new work by leading artists, printmakers and ceramicists, with a strong showing of North East artists, and runs a changing programme of solo and group exhibitions through the year. There's also a gift shop with cards, prints and pieces from small makers.

Why it's on our list: it's a genuinely good gallery in a lovely old building, with high ceilings and period details, and the little coffee shop serves Illy coffee and homemade cake in the old school yard. Admission is free, and dogs are welcome.

Worth knowing: indoor seating in the café is limited, so on colder days wrap up for the yard.

A Little Note From Heather & Sand

We haven't quite made it here ourselves yet, but it's on our list!

We're working our way around Northumberland, personally visiting and reviewing as many of the places featured in our Listed section as we can. It's a tough job, but somebody has to do it.

In the meantime, we do our homework. Before adding somewhere to Heather & Sand, we research it, look at what other visitors have to say and check that it has a good reputation. If the feedback isn't encouraging, it generally doesn't make our list.

Of course, a little online research is no substitute for muddy boots, a decent coffee and seeing somewhere for ourselves. So until we've visited, we'll leave the personal review to one side.

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