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Latitude: 50.837 / 50°50'13"N
Longitude: -0.1203 / 0°7'13"W
OS Eastings: 532451
OS Northings: 105844
OS Grid: TQ324058
Mapcode National: GBR KQ9.DDD
Mapcode Global: FRA B6MW.JY4
Plus Code: 9C2XRVPH+QV
Entry Name: Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery Cemetery Chapel
Listing Date: 26 August 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1381666
English Heritage Legacy ID: 482029
ID on this website: 101381666
Location: Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery, Round Hill, Brighton and Hove, West Sussex, BN2
County: The City of Brighton and Hove
Electoral Ward/Division: Hanover and Elm Grove
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 Martin with St Wilfrid and St Alban
Church of England Diocese: Chichester
Tagged with: Chapel
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
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