The Chattri is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1971. Memorial.
The Chattri
- WRENN ID
- quiet-gable-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Brighton Pavilion MP: Siân Berry (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1971
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- The Chattri, Patcham, Brighton, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN1 8ZB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 304 110
- Coordinates
- 50.88417, -0.14698
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chattri is a memorial built in 1921, designed by E.C. Henriques under the supervision of Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob. It is located in Patcham, Brighton, on the site where the bodies of Hindu and Sikh soldiers were cremated.
The memorial is made of white Sicilian marble with a darker stone used for the base. The base has a square plan and steps down four times towards the east. On top of the base is an octagonal pavilion, supported by columns that are square at the base and transition to octagonal halfway up. These columns feature bracketed capitals and support a dome that has the wide eaves and profile characteristic of an Indian chattri. The base is inscribed in both English and Hindi, dedicating the monument "TO THE MEMORY OF ALL THE INDIAN SOLDIERS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR KING-EMPEROR THIS MONUMENT ERECTED IN THE SITE WHERE THE HINDUS AND SIKHS WHO DIED IN HOSPITAL IN BRIGHTON PASSED THROUGH FIRE, IS IN GRATEFUL ADMIRATION AND BROTHERLY AFFECTION DEDICATED."
Local climate
The Chattri 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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