How to find us
Situation
The Moncrieff-Bray Gallery is located on the A283 two miles from Petworth and 3.6 miles from Pulborough.
From Pulborough
Coming from Pulborough continue from the centre of town for 3.6 miles, immediately after a sign to the right for Billingshurst, Guildford and Petworth Town Centre, turn left into the lane at the small crossroads at the top of the hill. Then as below.
From Petworth or Chichester
Coming from Petworth or Chichester take the turning onto the A283 continue along this for 1.6 miles and turn right into a small lane at the top of the hill, immediately before the sign for Billingshurst, Guildford and Petworth town centre. Then as below.
The Lane
The lane is marked by a dead end sign and there is a driveway for a white cottage. Continue down the lane for a quarter of a mile, the Gallery is in the Barn behind the only house on your right.
Train
There is a train from London Victoria to Pulborough every half hour.
Why You should Visit us:
It doesn’t all happen in London
In addition to the wonderful exhibitions we put on the gallery is a great day’s excursion from London or elsewhere set in the heart of the verdant Rother valley and nestling below the South Downs with its unspoilt villages and excellent local pubs for lunch.
The Goodwood Sculpture Park, Pallant House Art Gallery in Chichester, the historic houses, Petworth House, Parham House and the gardens of West Dean College are all near by. Pippa Blake one of our gallery artists had a solo exhibition in the West Dean College Gallery in May and June. Petworth is jam packed with antique and decorating shops as well as the well know Arden and Anstruther Photography Gallery.
We are close to Arundel with its Castle and wealth of antique shops and galleries. And if you are worn out by your day there is also the recently opened Sofas and Stuff show room in the same village. Come and visit us and explore - it doesn’t all happen in London.
Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood
An outstanding 26 acre sculpture garden showing over 70 monumental contemporary British sculptures. The Foundation commissions fresh work every year, sculptors currently on view include Tony Cragg, Bill Woodrow, Helaine Blunfeld, and Ian Hamilton Finlay
Petworth House
The vast late 17th-century mansion is set in a 700-acre deer park, landscaped by 'Capability' Brown and immortalised in Turner's paintings. It houses the National Trust's finest collection of pictures, with numerous works by Turner, Van Dyck, Reynolds and Blake. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/petworth
Parham House
This wonderful Elizabethan house was restored by Clive Pearson in 1922. It still retains the atmosphere of a family home today with its fine interiors, Oliver Messel ceiling in the long gallery and its outstanding gardens and park lands.
Pallant House Art Gallery, Chichester
A first class collection of modern British art including works by Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton and David Hockney, and post-war modernism by Freud, Howard Hodgkin and Henry Moore. The gallery has recently reopened in an award winning building designed by Coin St John Wilson with a constantly changing programme of loan exhibitions
Arden Anstruther Gallery, Petworth
A substantial body of photography collected by Paul and Toni Arden over thirty years. It ranges from the nineteen thirties to the present day and contains many iconic images. As well as the permanent collection, the gallery holds regular exhibitions of both the new and the old, the young and the great.
West Dean College
Formerly the home of the Surrealist Collector and friend of Salvador Dali, Sir Edward James, West Dean is now an arts and conservation college. The gardens icluding the restored Walled Kitchen Garden, one of the finest in England are open all year.The West Dean Gallery in the grounds holds changing exhibitions of contemporary art.
Pippa Blake will be showing from 15 May to 20 June, 2010
Sofas and Stuff
We also heartily recommended the following pubs all within a few minutes drive from the gallery
The Welldiggers, Petworth
The Black Horse, Byworth
The White Swan, Fittleworth
The White Horse, Sutton