The Cultural Quarter of the town Northampton, England, is a local council initiative to promote the area of the town centre which contains the theatre and museum. Part of it was referred to as Derngate, the name of a gate in the old town walls. The re-branding was launched in early 2013. It encompasses the

Northampton Museum Northampton Museum and Art Gallery is a public museum in Northampton, England. The museum is owned and run by West Northamptonshire Council and houses one of the largest collection of shoes in the world, with over 15,000 pairs,Royal & Derngate Royal & Derngate is a theatre complex in the Cultural Quarter of Northampton, England, consisting of the Royal Theatre and Derngate Theatre. The Royal was built by theatre architect Charles J. Phipps and opened in 1884. Ninety-nine years late ...

, a historic house

78 Derngate 78 Derngate is a Grade II* listed Georgian house in the Cultural Quarter of Northampton, England, originally built in 1815. Its interior was extensively remodelled in 1916 and 1917 by the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh for businessman We ...

, an art gallery NN Contemporary Art and a cinema, the

Errol Flynn Filmhouse Royal & Derngate is a theatre complex in the Cultural Quarter, Northampton, Cultural Quarter of Northampton, England, consisting of the Royal Theatre and Derngate Theatre. The Royal was built by theatre architect Charles J. Phipps and opened i ...

. Bars, restaurants, pubs, hair salons and fashion shops, housing and offices are included. Northampton High School for Girls was once located in the zone. Its site has since been sold for housing.

78 Derngate

is a Grade II*

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house, noted for its interior, which was extensively redeveloped in 1916-7 by

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for local businessman and modelmaker, Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke. It has been open to the public since 2003.

Errol Flynn Filmhouse

The

opened in June 2013, named after actor

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, who worked at Northampton's Royal Theatre in his early career. The 88-seat venue, in Albion Place, is part of the Royal & Derngate theatre complex. It screens art-house, world films and documentaries alongside some mainstream films. The development was part of the Northampton Alive regeneration project.

Northampton Museum and Art Gallery

Northampton Museum and Art Gallery Northampton Museum and Art Gallery is a public museum in Northampton, England. The museum is owned and run by West Northamptonshire Council and houses one of the largest collection of shoes in the world, with over 15,000 pairs, NN is an independent contemporary art space in the centre of Northampton. The gallery works with artists at all stages of their careers to present an international programme of contemporary art and multi-disciplinary events. The gallery is run by the Northampton Arts Collective, which moved in 2012 from the old Fishmarket, later demolished to make way for a new bus station. NN Cafe, a café and performance venue, opened upstairs in October 2013 and ran until 2016. The Artist Table took on the Cafe space opening in spring 2017. In 2014 NN was awarded charitable status by the charities commission. and was awarded National Portfolio Organisation status by Arts Council England in June 2017 for the period 2018–22. In 2003 a group of artists and practitioners came together to form Northampton Arts Collective (NAC). The group's first flagship project was Fishmarket, which launched in 2006 as an independently run, not-for-profit visual arts space in the former abandoned Fishmarket building off the market square in central Northampton. This building housed the largest gallery space outside a city in the UK, alongside retail units and café. From 2006–2011 it presented changing exhibitions of contemporary art featuring artists such as Jamie Shovlin,

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, and CJ Mahony, and interdisciplinary events including music and spoken word performances by artists such as

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, Lyric Lounge, and Don Letts. NAC now forms the board for NN in the new space at Number Nine, which is run by curatorial and operational staff.

Royal & Derngate

Royal & Derngate Royal & Derngate is a theatre complex in the Cultural Quarter of Northampton, England, consisting of the Royal Theatre and Derngate Theatre. The Royal was built by theatre architect Charles J. Phipps and opened in 1884. Ninety-nine years late ...

is a theatre complex which is formed of the Royal Theatre, a 583-seat producing house, and the Derngate Theatre, a 1,200-set multi-purpose performance space. The Royal opened in 1884, followed 99 years later by the Derngate in 1983, which was built on the site of Northampton's former Derngate bus station. The two theatres merged as one organisation in 1999, closed in 2005 to undergo an 18-month £14.5m redevelopment, and re-opened as Royal & Derngate in 2006. ''The Stage'' hailed Royal & Derngate as the Regional Theatre of the Year (2010) in its inaugural Stage 100 Awards for "its artistic quality and connections it has with local audiences."

Food and drink

* Ask – Italian cuisine *John Franklins *Haycock and Tailbar Associates *The Mailcoach *The Artist Table *

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*The Vineyard *The Wine Connection

Hair and fashion

*Berties *Dapper Chaps *The Guild *Montague Jeffery *Outcast *Salon Forty-Six *Wedding Wardrobe

Recent developments

St John's Hall of Residences, a block of 462 student flats for the

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, opened in January 2014. The building is on the site of a former open air car park and prior to that the

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, part of the former

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. A new

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hotel was built in Albion Place in 2015 and opened in 2016. Two properties adjacent to Royal & Derngate are set to be turned into a hotel and restaurant. Newspaper House on Derngate is expected to be turned into luxury flats. Several previously industrial buildings will be turned into a 'Vulcan Works'. Work on the project started in 2015 and is expected to be finished in 2017. A project to construct more headquarters for

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started in February 2015. It is expected to be finished in 2016.

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