Railings Running The Length Of Marine Parade

BRIGHTON

TQ3203NE MARINE PARADE 577-1/49/478 (South side) Railings running the length of Marine Parade

GV II

Railings running from the top of Duke's Mound at the eastern end of Marine Parade to the main entrance to the Brighton Sea Life Centre at the western end (qv). 1880, and apparently so dated on some piers, though the last digit is consistently indecipherable. Some of the railings have a makers' mark of J Every, Lewes; some may have been made by C Reed and Son of Brighton. Cast-iron and teak. The railings consist typically of sections about 2 metres in length, separated by cast-iron piers with rounded mouldings on the outer edge and a rounded head; each section is divided into 3 panels and the lower part of each panel has diagonal cross-pieces with a roundel at the centre carrying municipal emblems; the upper part of each section has circular upper rail of teak. The railings start at the east end with a squat pier whose faces are decorated with panels, some carrying municipal emblems and the date; elaborate entablature and gadrooned finial. There are short recesses or bays in the line of the railings, facing out to sea, opposite the end of Chichester Place, Percival Terrace, 155 Marine Parade (qv), the end of Portland Place, Crescent Place, 82 Marine Parade (qv), Marine Gardens, the end of Atlingworth Street and the end of Lower Rock Gardens; there are also similar recesses giving onto steps or ramps down to Madeira Drive, with railings of the same design, opposite Paston Place, Royal Crescent, the end of Bedford Street, 63 Marine Parade (qv) and Rock Place. The railings continue round Madeira Lift, but to a lighter and later design, and that design is also used on a set of steps down to the terrace opposite the end of Margaret Street. Opposite Madeira Place the railings are interrupted by the lift to the Brighton Sea Life Centre, and then continue as far as the principal entrance to the Sea Life Centre. (Builder: 23 July 1881).

Listing NGR: TQ3260903588