Fire &Iron Gallery

Fire & Iron Gallery occupies Rowhurst, a Grade II* listed farmhouse on Oxshott Road whose timber-framed service wing dates to 1346, older, according to Lucy Quinnell, than a flint-walled semi-basement beneath it. Lucy's grandfather, Richard Hector Quinnell, began forging decorative ironwork here in the 1930s to supply his own lighting business; her father, also Richard Quinnell, joined the family trade in 1963 and later co-founded the British Artist Blacksmiths Association with his wife, Jinny, producing work including the gates to Shakespeare's Globe and the corona on top of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. Lucy Quinnell now owns Rowhurst and runs the gallery herself alongside the Quinnell School of Blacksmithing, which teaches courses and experience days in the forge. Around two hundred British and international makers show metalwork here, from garden pieces to bespoke commissions in iron, steel, bronze, silver and gold.