Watts Gallery in Compton

What’s new for 2008

Watts Gallery houses the studio collection of G F Watts OM RA, and includes works by his wife – Mary Watts - and other Victorian artists. Opened on 1 April 1904, just two months before Watts 's death, it is one of the few purpose-built picture galleries in the UK housing a single artist’s collection. Today, Watts Gallery still retains the beliefs upon which it was founded - that great art should be accessible to all.

Admission Charges
Entrance to the main galleries is FREE.

Entrance to Victorian Artists in Photographs is:
£4 Adults
£3 Concessions
£3 The Art Fund members
FREE Under 16s

Opening Hours:
Winter
1 October - 31 March

Monday 2pm-4pm
Tuesday 2pm-4pm
Wednesday 11am-1pm and 2pm-4pm
Thursday Closed
Friday 2pm-4pm
Saturday 11am-1pm and 2pm-4pm
Sunday 2pm-4pm

The Gallery is closed on Good Friday, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day and every Thursday.

Summer
1 April - 30 September

Monday 2pm-6pm
Tuesday 2pm-6pm
Wednesday 11am-1pm and 2pm-6pm
Thursday Closed
Friday 2pm-6pm
Saturday 11am-1pm and 2pm-6pm
Sunday 2pm-6pm

Guided Tours and Talks
We provide specialist research facilities to students as well as guided tours and talks to groups. These can be booked in advance at £4.50 per person.
Please call 01483 810235 for more details.

Getting to the Gallery

By Public Transport
Take the train to Guildford (leaving London from Waterloo ). You can either get a taxi from the station which takes about ten minutes or there is an unreliable bus service. From the station walk toward the town centre, the bus station is signed. The number 46 bus goes through Compton and leaves at two minutes past the hour from Stand 5. The bus stops right outside the gallery. You can return to Guildford by the same bus on its return journey, it stops outside the gallery at about forty-five minutes past the hour.

By Car
Compton is easily accessible by car as it is signed just off the A3 south of Guildford. Take the B3000 from the A3 signed to Godalming/Farnham (brown tourist signs to Loseley House) and then Compton. After the roundabout at the end of the slip road take the first left on the B3000, this is Down Lane. The Gallery is on the left a few hundred yards down the road.

Address:
Down Lane
Compton
Guildford
Surrey
GU3 1DQ

Telephone:
01483 810235

Email:
info@wattsgallery.org.uk

For more information see: www.wattsgallery.org.uk