Brighton Unitarian Church

The Brighton Unitarian Church is a chapel built in 1820 and altered in 1936 and 1966, originally designed by Amon Henry Wilds for John Chatfield. It was initially known as Christ Church. The main elevation is faced with stucco, while the returns are brick with mixed bond, featuring a four-window range to a rectangular meeting hall, and a gabled slate roof that was renewed after storm damage in 1987. A large church room and kitchens from the early to mid-18th century are located to the rear and are excluded from the listing.

The church is in a Greek Revival style. The main elevation is designed as a Greek temple front, with a three-step base and a tetrastyle portico of fluted Doric columns supporting a broad, plain entablature. The front wall is plain, with responds to the end columns; heavy lintels are placed between the columns and wall. The central bay of the portico is wider, providing an opening for the flat-arched entrance, which has a battered, eared architrave and an Egyptian-Revival-style coved cornice. Round-arched windows with projecting sills and deep reveals are set into the returns; each has three lights, the centre terminating in a roundel. A brick entablature sits above the returns.

Inside, the main hall is roughly square with a coved cornice to a flat ceiling. Two flat-arched entrances with pediments are located in the ritual east wall. A ritual west gallery, originally intended for extra seating, now houses the late-19th century organ. A wood dado was installed along the foot of the walls at that time, along with wood benches, most of which have been removed except for a set placed lengthwise along the side walls. There are three stained glass windows of interest. A pair of windows, facing each other, are located in the second bay from the ritual east end and are dated to 1888; one commemorates a member of the Nye Chart family, owners of the Theatre Royal, New Road. A World War I memorial window is located in the easternmost window on the ritual north side.