Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery Cemetery Chapel

BRIGHTON

TQ3205NW LEWES ROAD 577-1/23/381 (East side) Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery: cemetery chapel

GV II

Cemetery chapel. Mid-to-late C19. Dressed flint with Bath stone dressings, roof of slate with timber lantern. STYLE: Gothic. PLAN: All directions are ritual. Chancel and nave under a single roof, porte-cochere at west end, and north-east vestry. EXTERIOR: east end has 4-light window with curvilinear tracery,and there is a 3-light east window to the vestry; on the north and south sides the 3 westernmost windows are low and pointed-arched, the 4th on the south side is a former entrance under a tiny gable, now treated as a window, and the 4th bay on the north side is taken up by the vestry. At the west end is a porte-cochere to the full height of the building with pointed arches to either side and angle buttresses; the west front of the porte-cochere is pierced by a 5-light window with lights decreasing in size from the centre, a sexfoil window above and a lancet above that. The entrance to the body of the chapel is pointed-arched with decorative hinges to the doors. Lantern, square in plan and surmounted by a short spire, between chapel and porte-cochere. INTERIOR: a single space plus a vestry to ritual north-east; east end decorated with panelled dado incorporating a reredos and wooden altar; floor covered with encaustic tiles; roof of scissor trusses, the principal rafters decorated with bosses at wallplate; all windows filled with C19 stained glass. (Dale A: Brighton Cemeteries: Brighton: 1991-).

Listing NGR: TQ3245105844