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Latitude: 50.8144 / 50°48'51"N
Longitude: -0.1083 / 0°6'29"W
OS Eastings: 533364
OS Northings: 103350
OS Grid: TQ333033
Mapcode National: GBR KQH.X0H
Mapcode Global: FRA B6NY.9M3
Plus Code: 9C2XRV7R+PM
Entry Name: The Temple
Listing Date: 13 October 1952
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1380996
English Heritage Legacy ID: 481339
ID on this website: 101380996
Location: Black Rock, Brighton and Hove, West Sussex, BN2
County: The City of Brighton and Hove
Electoral Ward/Division: Rottingdean Coastal
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Brighton and Hove
Traditional County: Sussex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Sussex
Church of England Parish: Brighton St George with St Anne and St Mark
Church of England Diocese: Chichester
Tagged with: Architectural structure
BRIGHTON
TQ3303SW THE ESPLANADE, Kemp Town
577-1/55/900 (East side)
13/10/52 The Temple
II
Garden temple. c1835. Designed by William Kendall, the
architect who laid out Madeira Drive and the Esplanade and who
also designed the Esplanade Cottages and Reading Room (qv).
Stucco. Roof obscured by parapet and C20 walkway.
PLAN: rectangular, set into embankment.
EXTERIOR: main elevation treated as a round-arched arcade of 3
bays with a return of one bay. Each pier is composite formed
from a plain pier with springing band for the arches to which
has been applied a Tuscan pilaster which supports an
entablature running just above the top of the arcade. End
walls treated as rusticated piers across which the dentil
cornice of the entablature runs.
Return of single bay to same design to the right.
Kemp Town constitutes a most important group and consists of
Arundel Terrace, Chichester Terrace, Lewes Crescent, Sussex
Square and related buildings.
Forms part of a group with the former Old Reading Room,
Esplanade Cottages and the tunnel entrance (qv).
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-: 81).
Listing NGR: TQ3334703360
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