Woodvale Crematorium

Woodvale Crematorium, located on Lewes Road in Brighton, consists of cemetery chapels built in 1857, with a crematorium added in 1930. The structure is made of flint with sandstone dressings and features slate roofs. It includes north (Anglican) and south (Nonconformist) chapels flanking a central tower topped with a spire. In front of the tower is a gabled carriage arch, which was used for hearses, now closed off with memorial tablets.

The carriage arch is pointed and moulded, featuring an ogee dripmould and a decorated corbel with an angel figure in the gable. Each side of the arch has a single-storey linking wing that contains a window with intersecting tracery and quatrefoil panelling at the parapet. The tower has three stages, corner buttresses, and a belfry that extends into gabled lucarnes, topped by a broach spire with simplified corner pinnacles.

Both chapels are identical in design, showcasing gables on the east and west sides, low angle buttresses, and geometrical tracery in the east and west windows, along with a quatrefoil window in the gable. The north and south sides feature pointed-arched entrances within buttressed and gabled porches, flanked by two-light, pointed-arched windows with geometrical tracery.

At the south-east corner, the single-storey crematorium has an octagonal chimney, all detailed in flint and sandstone. This crematorium was the first to be established in Sussex.