Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3004NW DENMARK TERRACE
577-1/31/182 (West side)
13/10/52 Brighton and Hove High School for
Girls (The Temple)
(Formerly Listed as:
MONTPELIER ROAD
(West side)
The Temple (Brighton and Hove High
School for Girls))

II

House, now school. 1819. Probably by Amon Wilds, for Thomas
Read Kemp. Originally it was square in plan with 5 bays on
each side, and 2-storeyed with the domed upper storey set well
back on all sides. It became a boys' school in 1828; the
present first floor on the original building dates from before
1876; the wing to the south-west corner was added, as the
inscription records, for the Girls Public Day School Company
in 1891, and further alterations were made in 1911-12; the
additions of these and other dates mean that only the east and
north sides of the building retain the original ground-floor
treatment of 5 arcaded bays.
Stucco, roof of Welsh slate.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys over basement with dormers in mansard
roof; 8-window range to east front. Entrance in central bay of
east front, probably of c1900: flat-arched with bracketed
canopy; flat-arched windows to ground floor set back under a
round-arched arcade with paired engaged columns which taper
downwards and have Egyptian bud capitals of exaggerated form;
recessed panels to the spandrels; cornice; first-floor windows
flat-arched; cornice; stepped parapet; 3 large dormers in
mansard roof with alternating triangular and segmental
pediments; the north and south returns are detailed in much
the same way, except that the linked dormers have only
triangular pediments, and the 1891 addition occupies the
westernmost bay of the south front: this wing has flat-arched
windows set back under a round arch to the ground floor and
staircase, moulded storey band, flat-arched first-floor
windows, cornice and corner stacks; pediment to west and north
fronts. The west front of the main block much altered with a
single-storey extension of c1900 and side-stack at north-west
corner with scrolled consoles and cornice.
INTERIOR: the interior has a pair of cast-iron columns with
scalloped abaci in the hall at the south-east corner of the
building.
HISTORICAL NOTE: it is supposed to have been built on the
exact measurement's of Solomon's Temple and so is called "The
Temple".
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).

Listing NGR: TQ3028704795

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26668562

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