Gallery on the Green
Cultivating Settle · The Green, Upper Settle, North Yorkshire, England · 2009
Photo: Humphrey Bolton / Geograph via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0), as also published on Street Art Utopia.
Settle Town Council bought this disused K6 telephone kiosk on the Green in Upper Settle in early 2009 under BT’s Adopt a Kiosk scheme, and it became the Gallery on the Green, which its organisers believe is the smallest public art gallery in the world. Source Checked
Seen Aug 2013: the newest dated photograph we found was taken on 8 August 2013 (the photo above). A Yorkshire Post report on an exhibition there during coronavirus restrictions is later than that, but gives no year in the text we could read. Source Source Checked
💡 4 things to know
- An adopted kioskSettle Town Council bought the phone box in early 2009 under BT’s Adopt a Kiosk scheme, and Cultivating Settle was agreed to manage the gallery. Source Checked
- Postcard-sized artThe 2009 opening announcement said contributions from the public must be no larger than a postcard, and that the gallery would open on 11 July. Source Reported
- A 1935 designThe kiosk is the K6 type, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935. Source Checked
- A door that can’t be lockedIts organisers said the gallery could stay open during coronavirus restrictions because the door cannot be locked; it showed John Bentley’s photographs, A Year in Hill Farming. Source Reported
📍 Where it is
On the Green in Upper Settle, North Yorkshire (BD24 9HG), beside a red post box. Source Source Checked
Opens Google Maps at the position recorded with the 2013 photo; we did not check Street View.
🗓️ Sightings
- 20098 Jul
Opening announced · British Photographic History
- 20138 Aug
Photographed with the post box · Wikimedia Commons
Green stamps mark dated photographs; amber stamps mark dated records and reports. Publication dates are not camera dates.
🗞️ In the sources
“We believe the Gallery on the Green is the smallest public art gallery in the world.”
“Contributions are welcomed from members of the public and must be no larger than a postcard”
“it is impossible to lock the door”
✅ The facts
- Status today
- Not known; newest dated photo August 2013 Source Unconfirmed
🔗 Related
All sources & image credits
- Visit Settle: Gallery on the Green
- British Photographic History: World’s smallest gallery to open (8 Jul 2009)
- Yorkshire Post: Photography exhibition about hill farming in a phone box in Settle
- Wikimedia Commons: The Gallery on the Green and post box, 8 August 2013
- Image: Humphrey Bolton / Geograph via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0, as also published on Street Art Utopia; a 16:9 share image was made from it.
Last checked: 4 November 2026. How we verify art