Grade I listed buildings in Brighton and Hove
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coast approximately 52 miles (83.7 km) south of London, was formed as a unitary authority
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in 1997 by the merger of the neighbouring towns of Brighton
Brighton
Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...
and Hove
Hove
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. Queen Elizabeth II
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granted city status
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in 2000.
In England, a building or structure is defined as "listed" when it is placed on a statutory register of buildings of "special architectural or historic interest" by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
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, a Government department, in accordance with the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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. English Heritage
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, a non-departmental public body
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, acts as an agency of this department to administer the process and advise the department on relevant issues. There are three grades of listing status: Grade I, the highest, defined as being of "exceptional interest"; Grade II*, "particularly important buildings of more than special interest"; and Grade II, the lowest, used for buildings of "special interest".
Brighton and its westerly neighbour Hove developed independently as fishing villages on the English Channel coastline. Brighton was founded as a Saxon
Anglo-Saxons
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homestead
Homestead (buildings)
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and had a population of about 400 at the time of the Domesday survey
Domesday Book
Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086...
in 1086. Hove had a long tradition of farming on the fertile downland
South Downs
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behind the coast, and was also known for smuggling
Smuggling
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activity. Both places were in decline in the mid-17th century; but local doctor Richard Russell's
Richard Russell (doctor)
Richard Russell was an 18th century British Physician who encouraged his patients to use a form of water therapy that involved the submersion or bathing in, and drinking of, seawater...
advocacy of drinking and bathing in seawater
Thalassotherapy
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at Brighton attracted members of Britain's high society
Upper class
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and royalty. This included the Prince of Wales
George IV of the United Kingdom
George IV was the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and also of Hanover from the death of his father, George III, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten years later...
, who commissioned architect John Nash
John Nash (architect)
John Nash was a British architect responsible for much of the layout of Regency London.-Biography:Born in Lambeth, London, the son of a Welsh millwright, Nash trained with the architect Sir Robert Taylor. He established his own practice in 1777, but his career was initially unsuccessful and...
to build a house; the result was the city's best-known building, the architecturally eclectic Royal Pavilion
Royal Pavilion
The Royal Pavilion is a former royal residence located in Brighton, England. It was built in three campaigns, beginning in 1787, as a seaside retreat for George, Prince of Wales, from 1811 Prince Regent. It is often referred to as the Brighton Pavilion...
.
Helped by its proximity to London, good climate and the royal patronage it enjoyed, Brighton developed rapidly in the early 19th century: the number of houses doubled to about 8,000 between 1820 and 1830. Three local architects—Charles Busby
Charles Busby
Charles Augustin Busby was an English architect.He created many buildings in and around Brighton such as Brunswick Square and St Margarets Church. His style usually included Romanesque style pillars to his buildings....
, Amon Wilds
Amon Wilds
Amon Wilds was an English architect and builder. He formed an architectural partnership with his son Amon Henry WildsIn this article, Amon Wilds is referred to as Wilds senior and his son Amon Henry Wilds as Wilds junior. in 1806 and started working in the fashionable and growing seaside resort...
and his son Amon Henry Wilds
Amon Henry Wilds
Amon Henry Wilds was an English architect. He was part of a team of three architects and builders who—working together or independently at different times—were almost solely responsible for a surge in residential construction and development in early 19th-century Brighton, which until then had...
—were responsible for several innovative, practical and elegant residential developments and public buildings in both Brighton and Hove. The Kemp Town
Kemp Town
Kemp Town is a 19th Century residential estate in the east of Brighton in East Sussex, England, UK. Kemp Town was conceived and financed by Thomas Read Kemp. It has given its name to the larger Kemptown region of Brighton....
and Brunswick
Brunswick (Hove)
Brunswick Town is an area in Hove, in the city of Brighton and Hove, England. It is best known for the Regency architecture of the Brunswick estate.-History:...
estates bordered Brighton to the east and west respectively. The town was thereby joined to Hove, in turn stimulating its growth. Kemp Town was primarily the work of Barry and Wilds senior, and was conceived as a seven-part design: two sea-facing terraces (Arundel Terrace and Chichester Terrace), a square (Sussex Square) with houses on three sides, and a two-part crescent (Lewes Crescent) joining these sections. All seven parts are listed at Grade I. Similarly, the four parts of Brunswick Terrace and the east and west sides of Brunswick Square, which formed the main part of the Wilds and Busby partnership's Brunswick estate, have been awarded Grade I status.
A combination of Victorian
Victorian era
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence...
enthusiasm for church-building, the importance of churchgoing as part of Brighton's social calendar and a need to provide places for poor people to worship resulted in many churches being built in Brighton and Hove in the 19th century. Five have a Grade I listing, including one that is no longer in use. The pleasure pier was another Victorian trend, and Brighton's West Pier is one of only two Grade I-listed piers in England; it is now in ruins after a series of storms and fires caused it to collapse. After it closed in 1975, a piece fell into the sea in 1984, then the Great Storm of 1987
Great Storm of 1987
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caused more damage. Partial demolition followed, but in the space of five months from December 2002 it suffered two further collapses and two devastating fires.
In the 20th century, both Brighton and Hove expanded by absorbing surrounding villages, many of which had ancient buildings. Ovingdean
Ovingdean
Ovingdean is a small formerly agricultural village which was absorbed into the borough of Brighton, East Sussex, UK, in 1928, and now forms part of the city of Brighton and Hove. It has expanded through the growth of residential streets on its eastern and southern sides, and now has a population of...
and Stanmer
Stanmer
Stanmer is a small village on the eastern outskirts of Brighton, in East Sussex, England.-History:Stanmer village pond is surrounded by sarsen stones, which accounts for the place-name, Old English for 'stone pond'. The stones are not in their original situation, but have been gathered on the Downs...
were two such places, and Ovingdean's 12th-century parish church
Parish church
A parish church , in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches....
and an early 18th-century mansion in Stanmer Park
Stanmer Park
Stanmer Park is a large open park immediately to the west of the University of Sussex, and to the north-east of the town of Brighton in the county of East Sussex, England, UK....
—now the city's largest expanse of green space—are the oldest Grade I listed buildings in Brighton and Hove. Sussex University
University of Sussex
The University of Sussex is an English public research university situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, within the city of Brighton and Hove. The University received its Royal Charter in August 1961....
, built on open land near Stanmer as the first new university of the post-war era
Post-war
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, was designed by Sir Basil Spence
Basil Spence
Sir Basil Urwin Spence, OM, OBE, RA was a Scottish architect, most notably associated with Coventry Cathedral in England and the Beehive in New Zealand, but also responsible for numerous other buildings in the Modernist/Brutalist style.-Training:Spence was born in Bombay, India, the son of Urwin...
; Falmer House, the main building on the campus, received a Grade I listing in 1993 and is the most recently built Grade I building in the city.
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| St Wulfran's Church St Wulfran's Church, Ovingdean St Wulfran's Church, dedicated to Wulfram of Sens, a 7th-century French archbishop, is an Anglican church in Ovingdean, a rural village now within the English city of Brighton and Hove... |
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Ovingdean Ovingdean Ovingdean is a small formerly agricultural village which was absorbed into the borough of Brighton, East Sussex, UK, in 1928, and now forms part of the city of Brighton and Hove. It has expanded through the growth of residential streets on its eastern and southern sides, and now has a population of... 50.8157°N 0.0775°W |
Ovingdean became part of the Borough of Brighton in 1928, and is still a small village surrounded by fields. Its 12th-century flint Flint Flint is a hard, sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as a variety of chert. It occurs chiefly as nodules and masses in sedimentary rocks, such as chalks and limestones. Inside the nodule, flint is usually dark grey, black, green, white, or brown in colour, and... -built church is considered the oldest building in the city of Brighton and Hove. The tower, with "Sussex Cap" spire, was added in the 13th century, and a porch was added during a 19th-century restoration Victorian restoration Victorian restoration is the term commonly used to refer to the widespread and extensive refurbishment and rebuilding of Church of England churches and cathedrals that took place in England and Wales during the 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria... . |
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| Stanmer House Stanmer House Stanmer House is a Grade I listed mansion west of the village of Falmer and north-east of the city of Brighton and Hove.It stands very close to Stanmer village and Church, within the Stanmer Park... |
Stanmer Stanmer Stanmer is a small village on the eastern outskirts of Brighton, in East Sussex, England.-History:Stanmer village pond is surrounded by sarsen stones, which accounts for the place-name, Old English for 'stone pond'. The stones are not in their original situation, but have been gathered on the Downs... 50.8693°N 0.1022°W |
Henry Pelham Henry Pelham Henry Pelham was a British Whig statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 27 August 1743 until his death in 1754... commissioned Nicholas Dubois to rebuild the family's house, on the Stanmer estate east of Brighton. The Palladian mansion has eight bays, three of which project forwards beneath a pediment. The ashlar, brick and flint building is Dubois' only surviving work in England. |
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| Marlborough House Marlborough House, Brighton Marlborough House is a mansion in Brighton on the south coast of England. It is a Grade I listed building. Located at 54 Old Steine, it was built as a red brick building circa 1765 for Samuel Shergold, a local hotelier... and attached railings |
Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8220°N 0.1386°W |
A local hotel owner had this house built for him in 1769. Two years later the 4th Duke of Marlborough George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough KG, PC, FRS , styled Marquess of Blandford until 1758, was a British courtier and politician... bought it; in 1786 he sold it to politician William Gerard Hamilton William Gerard Hamilton William Gerard Hamilton , English statesman and Irish politician, popularly known as "Single Speech Hamilton," was born in London, the son of a Scottish bencher of Lincoln's Inn.... , who commissioned Robert Adam Robert Adam Robert Adam was a Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam , Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him... to redesign it. The five-bay Bay (architecture) A bay is a unit of form in architecture. This unit is defined as the zone between the outer edges of an engaged column, pilaster, or post; or within a window frame, doorframe, or vertical 'bas relief' wall form.-Defining elements:... exterior has pediments above the outermost bays, Doric columns Doric order The Doric order was one of the three orders or organizational systems of ancient Greek or classical architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.-History:... and ground-floor Palladian windows. Nikolaus Pevsner Nikolaus Pevsner Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner, CBE, FBA was a German-born British scholar of history of art and, especially, of history of architecture... called it "the finest house in Brighton". |
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| The Corn Exchange and Dome Theatre Brighton Dome The Brighton Dome is an arts venue in Brighton, England that contains the Concert Hall, Corn Exchange and the Pavilion Theatre. All three venues are linked to the rest of the Royal Pavilion Estate by an underground tunnel to the Royal Pavilion in Pavilion Gardens and through shared corridors to... |
Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8235°N 0.1383°W |
William Porden William Porden William Porden was a versatile English architect. Born in Kingston upon Hull, he trained under James Wyatt and Samuel Pepys Cockerell.... 's Indo-Saracenic Indo-Saracenic The Indo-Saracenic Revival was an architectural style movement by British architects in the late 19th century in British India... riding school and stables, built for King George IV George IV of the United Kingdom George IV was the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and also of Hanover from the death of his father, George III, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten years later... , had an 80 feet (24.4 m) diameter glass and wood dome, which has given its name to the theatre and concert hall which now occupies the building. The conversion took place in the 1930s. |
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| Royal Pavilion Royal Pavilion The Royal Pavilion is a former royal residence located in Brighton, England. It was built in three campaigns, beginning in 1787, as a seaside retreat for George, Prince of Wales, from 1811 Prince Regent. It is often referred to as the Brighton Pavilion... |
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Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8225°N 0.1375°W |
The "legacy of a profligate prince George IV of the United Kingdom George IV was the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and also of Hanover from the death of his father, George III, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten years later... " epitomises both the Regency era and Brighton itself. It took more than 35 years to transform a farmhouse on Old Steine into the Prince Regent's George IV of the United Kingdom George IV was the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and also of Hanover from the death of his father, George III, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten years later... residence, and he abandoned Brighton soon afterwards. The opulent exterior is a combination of Indo-Saracenic Indo-Saracenic The Indo-Saracenic Revival was an architectural style movement by British architects in the late 19th century in British India... and Orientalist styles. |
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| 1–29 Brunswick Square and attached railings |
Brunswick, Hove Brunswick (Hove) Brunswick Town is an area in Hove, in the city of Brighton and Hove, England. It is best known for the Regency architecture of the Brunswick estate.-History:... 50.8240°N 0.1585°W |
The east side of Brunswick Square was started in 1825. The houses have four or five storeys; all have three windows on their front elevation; and all but six are bow-fronted. Four of the flat-fronted houses (those at the north end) have large Corinthian pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... s below a parapet with a balustrade Baluster A baluster is a moulded shaft, square or of lathe-turned form, one of various forms of spindle in woodwork, made of stone or wood and sometimes of metal, standing on a unifying footing, and supporting the coping of a parapet or the handrail of a staircase. Multiplied in this way, they form a... . Original sash window Sash window A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels or "sashes" that form a frame to hold panes of glass, which are often separated from other panes by narrow muntins... s and iron balconies are still in place. |
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| 30–58, 30A and 33A Brunswick Square and attached railings |
Brunswick, Hove Brunswick (Hove) Brunswick Town is an area in Hove, in the city of Brighton and Hove, England. It is best known for the Regency architecture of the Brunswick estate.-History:... 50.8244°N 0.1597°W |
The west side of the square is similar to the eastern section. The houses vary between three, four and five storeys in height, and some have two-window façades (most are triple-fronted). Busby and Wilds used a mixture of Ionic Ionic order The Ionic order forms one of the three orders or organizational systems of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric and the Corinthian... , Corinthian and Doric columns, pilasters and chambranle Chambranle In architecture and joinery, the chambranle is the border, frame, or ornament, made of stone or wood, that is a component of the three sides round chamber doors, large windows, and chimneys.... s. The roadside railings are cast iron Cast iron Cast iron is derived from pig iron, and while it usually refers to gray iron, it also identifies a large group of ferrous alloys which solidify with a eutectic. The color of a fractured surface can be used to identify an alloy. White cast iron is named after its white surface when fractured, due... . |
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| St Andrew's Church St Andrew's Church, Waterloo Street, Hove St Andrew's Church is a former Anglican church in the Brunswick Town area of Hove, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. Although declared redundant in 1990, it was one of the area's most fashionable places of worship in the 19th century, when it was built to serve the wealthy residents... |
Brunswick, Hove Brunswick (Hove) Brunswick Town is an area in Hove, in the city of Brighton and Hove, England. It is best known for the Regency architecture of the Brunswick estate.-History:... 50.8235°N 0.1571°W |
Sir Charles Barry Charles Barry Sir Charles Barry FRS was an English architect, best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster in London during the mid-19th century, but also responsible for numerous other buildings and gardens.- Background and training :Born on 23 May 1795 in Bridge Street, Westminster... built this church as a proprietary chapel for Rev. Edward Everard. He had fallen out with the architect of the Brunswick estate, Charles Busby Charles Busby Charles Augustin Busby was an English architect.He created many buildings in and around Brighton such as Brunswick Square and St Margarets Church. His style usually included Romanesque style pillars to his buildings.... , who had originally been expected to design the church to serve the estate. Barry's design was the first ecclesiastical use of the Italianate style in England, and the church became fashionable in high society Upper class In social science, the "upper class" is the group of people at the top of a social hierarchy. Members of an upper class may have great power over the allocation of resources and governmental policy in their area.- Historical meaning :... and the Royal Family. It was declared redundant in 1990 and is now owned by the Churches Conservation Trust Churches Conservation Trust The Churches Conservation Trust, which was initially known as the Redundant Churches Fund, is a charity whose purpose is to protect historic churches at risk, those that have been made redundant by the Church of England. The Trust was established by the Pastoral Measure of 1968... . |
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| 1–10 Sussex Square and attached piers and railings |
Kemp Town Kemp Town Kemp Town is a 19th Century residential estate in the east of Brighton in East Sussex, England, UK. Kemp Town was conceived and financed by Thomas Read Kemp. It has given its name to the larger Kemptown region of Brighton.... 50.8168°N 0.1115°W |
Each house has three storeys, a three-window frontage and cast iron balconies. Doric and Tuscan columns are used for the entrance porches. Numbers 1, 4, 7 and 10 have Composite order Composite order The composite order is a mixed order, combining the volutes of the Ionic order capital with the acanthus leaves of the Corinthian order. The composite order volutes are larger, however, and the composite order also has echinus molding with egg-and-dart ornamentation between the volutes... pilasters at second-storey level. The terrace forms the west side of Sussex Square, the focus of the Kemp Town estate. |
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| 11–40 Sussex Square and attached railings |
Kemp Town Kemp Town Kemp Town is a 19th Century residential estate in the east of Brighton in East Sussex, England, UK. Kemp Town was conceived and financed by Thomas Read Kemp. It has given its name to the larger Kemptown region of Brighton.... 50.8178°N 0.1101°W |
Thomas Read Kemp Thomas Read Kemp Thomas Read Kemp was an English property developer and politician. He was the son of Sussex landowner Thomas Kemp, whose farmhouse in Brighton was rented by the Prince of Wales in 1786.-Biography:... , who conceived and financed Kemp Town, lived at Number 22 for 10 years from 1827. All but two of the houses in the U-shaped terrace have three-window façades; Numbers 25 and 26 span a nine-window range between them. On the east and west sides, six houses jut forwards and feature Composite pilasters of the giant order Giant order In Classical architecture, a giant order is an order whose columns or pilasters span two stories... . |
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| 41–50 Sussex Square and attached railings |
Kemp Town Kemp Town Kemp Town is a 19th Century residential estate in the east of Brighton in East Sussex, England, UK. Kemp Town was conceived and financed by Thomas Read Kemp. It has given its name to the larger Kemptown region of Brighton.... 50.8172°N 0.1095°W |
The east side of Sussex Square broadly matches its west side: each house has three bays, a three-window frontage, and cast iron railings leading to either balconies or verandah Verandah A veranda or verandah is a roofed opened gallery or porch. It is also described as an open pillared gallery, generally roofed, built around a central structure... s at second-storey level. Every third house projects forward and has large Composite pilasters. |
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| 1–13 Arundel Terrace and Arundel House |
Kemp Town Kemp Town Kemp Town is a 19th Century residential estate in the east of Brighton in East Sussex, England, UK. Kemp Town was conceived and financed by Thomas Read Kemp. It has given its name to the larger Kemptown region of Brighton.... 50.8151°N 0.1091°W |
The first part of the Kemp Town estate to be built consists of a central five-house block with Corinthian columns Corinthian order The Corinthian order is one of the three principal classical orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. The other two are the Doric and Ionic. When classical architecture was revived during the Renaissance, two more orders were added to the canon, the Tuscan order and the Composite order... , three plain houses on each side and a single projecting house at each end. It was built as a single arrangement of 39 symmetrical bays; each house has three storeys and three bays. |
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| 1–6 Brunswick Terrace and attached railings |
Brunswick, Hove Brunswick (Hove) Brunswick Town is an area in Hove, in the city of Brighton and Hove, England. It is best known for the Regency architecture of the Brunswick estate.-History:... 50.8231°N 0.1570°W |
Wilds and Busby designed the easternmost part of Brunswick Terrace as a six-part composition with a central section of four storeys and six bays, flanked by four three-storey houses of three bays each. The second and fifth units are bow-fronted; the others have Ionic columns. A pediment spans the two centre bays at fourth-storey level. | |||
| 7–19 Brunswick Terrace and attached railings |
Brunswick, Hove Brunswick (Hove) Brunswick Town is an area in Hove, in the city of Brighton and Hove, England. It is best known for the Regency architecture of the Brunswick estate.-History:... 50.8233°N 0.1581°W |
This three-storey terrace has a long mansard roof Mansard roof A mansard or mansard roof is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its sides with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper that is punctured by dormer windows. The roof creates an additional floor of habitable space, such as a garret... between the more steeply pitched roofs of the end bays. The symmetrical design is of five parts: two three-bay end buildings, two 12-bay sections and a central part of nine bays below a pediment bearing the lettering . Corinthian columns, pilasters and capitals Capital (architecture) In architecture the capital forms the topmost member of a column . It mediates between the column and the load thrusting down upon it, broadening the area of the column's supporting surface... feature throughout. |
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| 20–32 Brunswick Terrace and attached railings |
Brunswick, Hove Brunswick (Hove) Brunswick Town is an area in Hove, in the city of Brighton and Hove, England. It is best known for the Regency architecture of the Brunswick estate.-History:... 50.8236°N 0.1607°W |
The design of this section was identical to that of 7–19 Brunswick Terrace; but the cupola Cupola In architecture, a cupola is a small, most-often dome-like, structure on top of a building. Often used to provide a lookout or to admit light and air, it usually crowns a larger roof or dome.... above the pediment, absent there, survives on this block. |
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| 33–42 Brunswick Terrace and attached railings |
Brunswick, Hove Brunswick (Hove) Brunswick Town is an area in Hove, in the city of Brighton and Hove, England. It is best known for the Regency architecture of the Brunswick estate.-History:... 50.8238°N 0.1622°W |
The western part of the terrace consisted of nine houses and a hotel. A plaque commemorates Prince von Metternich's six-month stay between 1848 and 1849. The second storey of the four-storey terrace has an unbroken balcony of cast iron. The second and third storeys have pilasters between each window, topped by Corinthian capitals. | |||
| 1–14 Lewes Crescent and attached railings |
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Kemp Town Kemp Town Kemp Town is a 19th Century residential estate in the east of Brighton in East Sussex, England, UK. Kemp Town was conceived and financed by Thomas Read Kemp. It has given its name to the larger Kemptown region of Brighton.... 50.8163°N 0.1124°W |
Thomas Cubitt, who lived at Number 13 for a time, built several of the houses in this crescent, to the designs of Wilds and Busby. Five of the houses project slightly, and the end houses are prominently curved. Each house is of three bays and has a cast iron balcony at second-storey level. | ||
| 15–28 Lewes Crescent and attached railings |
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Kemp Town Kemp Town Kemp Town is a 19th Century residential estate in the east of Brighton in East Sussex, England, UK. Kemp Town was conceived and financed by Thomas Read Kemp. It has given its name to the larger Kemptown region of Brighton.... 50.8157°N 0.1098°W |
The layout of the east side of Lewes Crescent is similar to that of its opposite side, but the architectural details of individual houses are different. Many of the entrances are flanked by Doric columns, and three houses have chambranles of Tuscan pilasters Tuscan order Among canon of classical orders of classical architecture, the Tuscan order's place is due to the influence of the Italian Sebastiano Serlio, who meticulously described the five orders including a "Tuscan order", "the solidest and least ornate", in his fourth book of Regole generalii di... . The end houses are curved in order to link the crescent to Arundel Terrace and Sussex Square. |
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| 1–14 Chichester Terrace, Chichester House and attached railings |
Kemp Town Kemp Town Kemp Town is a 19th Century residential estate in the east of Brighton in East Sussex, England, UK. Kemp Town was conceived and financed by Thomas Read Kemp. It has given its name to the larger Kemptown region of Brighton.... 50.8161°N 0.1138°W |
The three easternmost houses in Kemp Town's western sea-facing terrace were built first; the others were not completed until 1855, and Number 14 stood separately for several years after its construction in 1832. Thomas Cubitt Thomas Cubitt Thomas Cubitt , born Buxton, Norfolk, was the leading master builder in London in the second quarter of the 19th century, and also carried out several projects in other parts of England.-Background:... built Numbers 4–14 using Wilds and Busby's designs as a basis, but he omitted elements such as the Corinthian pilasters used on Numbers 1–3. Several houses had an extra storey added in the 20th century. |
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| West Pier | Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8208°N 0.1511°W |
Eugenius Birch Eugenius Birch Eugenius Birch was a 19th Century English naval architect, engineer and noted pier builder.-Biography:Both Eugenius and his brother were born in Gloucester Terrace, Shoreditch, to grain dealer John and wife Susanne... started building this pier—one of Britain's first pleasure piers—in 1863, using cast and wrought iron Wrought iron thumb|The [[Eiffel tower]] is constructed from [[puddle iron]], a form of wrought ironWrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon... . It was extended to 1100 feet (335.3 m) in 1893; the new section was of steel. A pavilion was built at the sea end in 1890 and a concert hall in 1916. The structure became unsafe in the 1970s, and since then it has been wrecked by storms and fires. |
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| St Bartholomew's Church St Bartholomew's Church, Brighton St Bartholomew's Church, dedicated to the apostle Bartholomew, is an Anglican church in Brighton, England. The neo-gothic building is located on Ann Street, on a sloping site between Brighton railway station and the A23 London Road, adjacent to the New England Quarter development... |
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New England Quarter New England Quarter The New England Quarter is a mixed-use development in the city of Brighton and Hove, England. It was built between 2004 and 2008 on the largest brownfield site in the city, adjacent to Brighton railway station... 50.8308°N 0.1372°W |
The gigantic appearance of this church is accentuated by the lack of aisle Aisle An aisle is, in general, a space for walking with rows of seats on both sides or with rows of seats on one side and a wall on the other... s in the nave Nave In Romanesque and Gothic Christian abbey, cathedral basilica and church architecture, the nave is the central approach to the high altar, the main body of the church. "Nave" was probably suggested by the keel shape of its vaulting... , which is the tallest of any British parish church Parish church A parish church , in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches.... . Edmund Scott's design, inspired by Noah's Ark Noah's Ark Noah's Ark is a vessel appearing in the Book of Genesis and the Quran . These narratives describe the construction of the ark by Noah at God's command to save himself, his family, and the world's animals from the worldwide deluge of the Great Flood.In the narrative of the ark, God sees the... , caused controversy in the late 19th century—as did the Anglo-Catholic Anglo-Catholicism The terms Anglo-Catholic and Anglo-Catholicism describe people, beliefs and practices within Anglicanism that affirm the Catholic, rather than Protestant, heritage and identity of the Anglican churches.... style of Rev. Arthur Wagner's services. |
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| All Saints Church All Saints Church, Hove All Saints Church is an Anglican church in Hove, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. It has served as the parish church for the whole of Hove since 1892, and stands in a prominent location at a major crossroads in central Hove.-History:... |
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Hove Hove Hove is a town on the south coast of England, immediately to the west of its larger neighbour Brighton, with which it forms the unitary authority Brighton and Hove. It forms a single conurbation together with Brighton and some smaller towns and villages running along the coast... 50.8303°N 0.1674°W |
John Loughborough Pearson John Loughborough Pearson John Loughborough Pearson was a Gothic Revival architect renowned for his work on churches and cathedrals. Pearson revived and practised largely the art of vaulting, and acquired in it a proficiency unrivalled in his generation.-Early life and education:Pearson was born in Brussels, Belgium on 5... 's Gothic Revival Gothic Revival architecture The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England... church became Hove's parish church Parish church A parish church , in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches.... a year after it was completed. He used local sandstone for the exterior. The sanctuary and chancel Chancel In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar in the sanctuary at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building... were not finished until 1901, and the proposed tower was never built. |
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| St Michael and All Angels Church St Michael's Church, Brighton St. Michael's Church is an Anglican church in Brighton, England, dating from the mid-Victorian era. Located on Victoria Road in the Montpelier area, to the east of Montpelier Road, it is one of the largest churches in the city of Brighton and Hove... and attached walls |
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Montpelier Montpelier, Brighton Montpelier is an inner suburban area of Brighton, part of the English city and seaside resort of Brighton and Hove. Developed together with the adjacent Clifton Hill area in the mid-19th century, it forms a high-class, architecturally cohesive residential district with "an exceptionally complete... 50.8274°N 0.1498°W |
This Gothic Revival Gothic Revival architecture The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England... building is two churches in one: George Frederick Bodley George Frederick Bodley George Frederick Bodley was an English architect working in the Gothic revival style.-Personal life:Bodley was the youngest son of William Hulme Bodley, M.D. of Edinburgh, physician at Hull Royal Infirmary, Kingston upon Hull, who in 1838 retired to his wife's home town, Brighton, Sussex, England.... 's 1862 church became the south aisle of an extension, designed by William Burges William Burges (architect) William Burges was an English architect and designer. Amongst the greatest of the Victorian art-architects, Burges sought in his work an escape from 19th century industrialisation and a return to the values, architectural and social, of an imagined mediaeval England... and completed after his death, in the same style using red brick with pale sandstone bands. The ornately decorated interior has multi-coloured brickwork, stained glass Stained glass The term stained glass can refer to coloured glass as a material or to works produced from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant buildings... and a restored 15th-century reredos Reredos thumb|300px|right|An altar and reredos from [[St. Josaphat's Roman Catholic Church|St. Josaphat Catholic Church]] in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]]. This would be called a [[retable]] in many other languages and countries.... . |
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| Falmer House including moat within courtyard | University of Sussex University of Sussex The University of Sussex is an English public research university situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, within the city of Brighton and Hove. The University received its Royal Charter in August 1961.... 50.8235°N 0.1383°W |
Sir Basil Spence Basil Spence Sir Basil Urwin Spence, OM, OBE, RA was a Scottish architect, most notably associated with Coventry Cathedral in England and the Beehive in New Zealand, but also responsible for numerous other buildings in the Modernist/Brutalist style.-Training:Spence was born in Bombay, India, the son of Urwin... employed the Modernist style Modern architecture Modern architecture is generally characterized by simplification of form and creation of ornament from the structure and theme of the building. It is a term applied to an overarching movement, with its exact definition and scope varying widely... for his work at this early member of the Plate glass university Plate glass university The term plate glass university has come into use by some to refer to one of the several universities founded in the United Kingdom in the 1960s in the era of the Robbins Report on higher education. In some cases these were older schools with new Royal Charters, now making them universities... group. Falmer House, the main building on the campus, features concrete vaults and arches, contrasting piers of red brick and copper-faced motifs on the flat roof. |