Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery Cemetery Chapel
BRIGHTON EXTRA MURAL CEMETERY CEMETERY CHAPEL, LEWES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381666
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery Cemetery Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- BRIGHTON EXTRA MURAL CEMETERY CEMETERY CHAPEL, LEWES ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381666
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery Cemetery Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIGHTON EXTRA MURAL CEMETERY CEMETERY CHAPEL, LEWES 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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BRIGHTON EXTRA MURAL CEMETERY CEMETERY CHAPEL, LEWES 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 32451 05844
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482029
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dale, A, Brighton Cemeteries, (1991)
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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