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Latitude: 50.865 / 50°51'54"N
Longitude: -0.088 / 0°5'16"W
OS Eastings: 534646
OS Northings: 109020
OS Grid: TQ346090
Mapcode National: GBR KPY.NL4
Mapcode Global: FRA B6PT.CHY
Plus Code: 9C2XVW86+2Q
Entry Name: Meeting House Including Kerbstones Surrounding Moat
Listing Date: 30 March 1993
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1381048
English Heritage Legacy ID: 481392
ID on this website: 101381048
Location: Falmer, Brighton and Hove, West Sussex, BN1
County: The City of Brighton and Hove
Electoral Ward/Division: Hollingbury and Stanmer
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: University of Sussex
Traditional County: Sussex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Sussex
Church of England Parish: Stanmer with Falmer, St Laurence
Church of England Diocese: Chichester
Tagged with: Architectural structure
BRIGHTON
TQ3409 UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX
577-1/10/1136 Meeting House including kerbstones
30/03/93 surrounding moat
GV II*
University religious meeting house. 1956-66. Sir Basil Spence.
Red brick and bare board-marked concrete. Conoidal copper
covered roof. Circular plan.
Ground floor containing meeting rooms fully glazed and
recessed with brick buttresses which project across surround
'moat'. Upper floor containing chapel, with board-marked
concrete, treated as blocks with an open bond, having
multi-coloured glazing in the gaps between the blocks.
Projecting concrete gutter spouts. Irregular cone-like roof
with glazed aperture at the top, set on the diagonal.
INTERIOR: lit by window-wall of coloured glass and containing
original Spence fittings, including square altar on circular
concrete pedestal, lectern, a pair of readers desks with
concrete and leather seats, and timber sedilia, all set on
circular pedestal 3 steps high. Organ case with open
decorative brickwork; concrete and timber choir stalls.
The Meeting House is an important focal point for the
University campus.
Listing NGR: TQ3464609020
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