Brighton and Preston Cemetery Mortuary Chapel

BRIGHTON AND PRESTON CEMETERY MORTUARY CHAPEL, HARTINGTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1381613
Date first listed:
26-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:
Brighton and Preston Cemetery Mortuary Chapel
Statutory Address:
BRIGHTON AND PRESTON CEMETERY MORTUARY CHAPEL, HARTINGTON ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1381613
Date first listed:
26-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:
Brighton and Preston Cemetery Mortuary Chapel
Statutory Address 1:
BRIGHTON AND PRESTON CEMETERY MORTUARY CHAPEL, HARTINGTON ROAD

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:
BRIGHTON AND PRESTON CEMETERY MORTUARY CHAPEL, HARTINGTON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 32778 05498

Details

BRIGHTON

TQ3205SE HARTINGTON ROAD
577-1/30/341 (North side)
Brighton and Preston Cemetery:
mortuary chapel

II

Cemetery chapel. c1900. Flint with dressings of red brick, and
of stone to the windows; roof of tiles, shingled spire.
A simple building of 2 bays with tower and spire. Brick bands,
and brickwork at the angles, throughout. East window of 3
stepped lancets with ogee heads; north and south sides have 2
4-light windows with similar details and a broad buttress
between; north vestry with flat-arched windows now blocked and
pointed-arched entrance. West tower, the west face buttressed
and 2 small lancets to the second stage; the whole of the
lower part of the tower open on the south side, forming a
large porch under a chamfered and sub-ordered arch;
pointed-arched entrance to the church on its east side, with
mouldings instead of chamfers and a dripmould. Splay-footed
spire with lucarnes.
INTERIOR: simple with panelled seating round the walls.



Listing NGR: TQ3277805498

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Legacy System number:
481975
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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