Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3205NW LEWES ROAD
577-1/23/381 (East side)
Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery:
cemetery chapel

GV II

Cemetery chapel. Mid-to-late C19. Dressed flint with Bath
stone dressings, roof of slate with timber lantern.
STYLE: Gothic.
PLAN: All directions are ritual. Chancel and nave under a
single roof, porte-cochere at west end, and north-east vestry.
EXTERIOR: east end has 4-light window with curvilinear
tracery,and there is a 3-light east window to the vestry; on
the north and south sides the 3 westernmost windows are low
and pointed-arched, the 4th on the south side is a former
entrance under a tiny gable, now treated as a window, and the
4th bay on the north side is taken up by the vestry.
At the west end is a porte-cochere to the full height of the
building with pointed arches to either side and angle
buttresses; the west front of the porte-cochere is pierced by
a 5-light window with lights decreasing in size from the
centre, a sexfoil window above and a lancet above that.
The entrance to the body of the chapel is pointed-arched with
decorative hinges to the doors. Lantern, square in plan and
surmounted by a short spire, between chapel and porte-cochere.
INTERIOR: a single space plus a vestry to ritual north-east;
east end decorated with panelled dado incorporating a reredos
and wooden altar; floor covered with encaustic tiles; roof of
scissor trusses, the principal rafters decorated with bosses
at wallplate; all windows filled with C19 stained glass.
(Dale A: Brighton Cemeteries: Brighton: 1991-).

Listing NGR: TQ3245105844

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661766

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