Sarah Myerscough Gallery, The Schoolhouse. Photo: Dan Fontanelli
Just over a year ago, Sarah Myerscough signed a lease on a three-story Victorian building just a few minutes walk from Selfridges. Empty for more than a decade, and in a dilapidated state, it had been many things in its 100 year life: a schoolhouse, a soup kitchen, a mothers’ meeting hall, a part of Central London Polytechnic. “How can you turn your back on a building like that?” says Myerscough, who in spite of decaying false walls, and mezzanines that cut floor-to-ceiling windows in half, saw the beauty of the building designed by John Peter Gandy in 1925 in the Greek Revival style. “I thought, how can I possibly make all this into a gallery? But I had absolutely fallen in love with it too.”
