The Staunton Memorial

The Staunton Memorial is a memorial pavilion built in 1828, originally known as Shell House and later referred to as the Chichester Cross. This hexagonal Gothick structure is designed to imitate the medieval Cross located in the center of Chichester. It is open on three sides, featuring a wider central arch, and is situated in a depression that gives it a grotto-like appearance.

The pavilion has stepped buttresses at each corner that support four-centred splayed arches. The structure includes cement pinnacles with a leaf pattern surface, stone weatherings, and a plinth, as well as stone weathering to the parapet. The walls are constructed of flint, with irregular flint for the main walls and knapped and coursed flint for the arrises. There is panel work made of very small round flints that creates a blind arcade of tiny pointed arches beneath the parapet. The front of the buttresses features dark panels, with smaller panels above larger ones, while pale panels are located at the sides of the openings. Dark knapped and squared flints form flush ogee arches above the openings.

Above the central opening, there is a stone panel supported by brackets, which displays a carved heraldic device in low relief. Some of the brick backing wall is exposed, but enough remains of the patterned rendering to suggest its former arcaded appearance. Inside, one arch contains one inscribed wall monument, while another arch holds two inscribed wall monuments. Wrought-iron rails now protect the interior.