Brighton and Preston Cemetery Mortuary Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1999. Cemetery chapel.
Brighton and Preston Cemetery Mortuary Chapel
- WRENN ID
- ruined-attic-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Brighton Pavilion MP: Siân Berry (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1999
- Type
- Cemetery chapel
- Address
- Brighton and Preston Cemetery Mortuary Chapel, Hartington Road, the City of Brighton and Hove
- OS grid reference
- TQ 327 054
- Coordinates
- 50.83379, -0.11581
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brighton and Preston Cemetery Mortuary Chapel is a cemetery chapel built around 1900. It is constructed from flint with red brick dressings and stone around the windows, topped with a tiled roof and a shingled spire. The building has a simple design consisting of two bays, a tower, and a spire, featuring brick bands and brickwork at the corners.
The east window has three stepped lancets with ogee heads, while the north and south sides each have two four-light windows with similar details and a broad buttress between them. The north vestry has flat-arched windows that are now blocked and a pointed-arched entrance. The west tower has a buttressed west face with two small lancets on the second stage. The lower part of the tower is open on the south side, creating a large porch under a chamfered and sub-ordered arch. There is a pointed-arched entrance to the chapel on the east side, featuring mouldings instead of chamfers and a dripmould. The spire is splay-footed and has lucarnes.
Inside, the chapel is simple, with panelled seating around the walls.
Local climate
Brighton and Preston Cemetery Mortuary Chapel receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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