Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery Cemetery Chapel

Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery Chapel is a cemetery chapel built in the mid-to-late 19th century. It is constructed from dressed flint with Bath stone dressings and features a slate roof topped with a timber lantern. The architectural style is Gothic.

The chapel has a plan that accommodates ritual use in all directions, with a chancel and nave under a single roof, a porte-cochere at the west end, and a vestry located to the north-east. The east end showcases a four-light window with curvilinear tracery, while the vestry has a three-light east window. On the north and south sides, the three westernmost windows are low and pointed-arched; the fourth window on the south side was originally an entrance beneath a small gable but is now treated as a window. The vestry occupies the fourth bay on the north side.

At the west end, the porte-cochere rises to the full height of the building, featuring pointed arches on either side and angle buttresses. The west front of the porte-cochere is adorned with a five-light window, where the lights decrease in size towards the center, accompanied by a sexfoil window above and a lancet window above that. The entrance to the chapel itself is pointed-arched, with decorative hinges on the doors. A square lantern, topped with a short spire, sits between the chapel and the porte-cochere.

Inside, the chapel consists of a single space with a vestry to the ritual north-east. The east end is decorated with a panelled dado that includes a reredos and a wooden altar, while the floor is covered with encaustic tiles. The roof features scissor trusses, with the principal rafters decorated with bosses at the wallplate, and all windows are filled with 19th-century stained glass.