Stanmer Church

Stanmer Church is an Anglican church built in 1838, located in Stanmer Park, Brighton. It is constructed of flint with stone dressings and features roofs made of slate and shingles on the spire. The church is designed in the Early English style and includes a chancel, nave, north and south transepts, a west tower, and a spire.

The exterior showcases short gabled angle buttresses at the east end and an east window with three stepped lancets. Most windows have double chamfered reveals, with the chancel's north and south windows featuring trefoiled heads. The south transept has a pointed-arched entrance flanked by colonnettes and three stepped lancets on its south face. The nave has two paired lancets and one single lancet, while the west door in the tower is adorned with a double chamfer and a hoodmould with head-stops. The tower is supported by angle buttresses with two offsets and has paired lancets on the north and south sides, with a circular clock opening above. The belfry features lancets flanked by colonnettes with hoodmoulds and head- and ballflower-stops, topped by an embattled parapet that jetties out on decorative corbels, leading to a recessed octagonal spire.

Inside, the walls are made of stone. The chancel is panelled at the east end and includes a stone reredos with three trefoiled niches, the outer two of which are decorated with relief foliage ornament. The chancel features a panelled roof with moulded ribs and decorative bosses, while the chancel arch and the arches to the north and south transepts are multi-moulded. There is an arcaded screen in the north transept, and a west organ gallery supported by slim quatrefoiled cast-iron columns, with a balustrade featuring blank trefoiled arcading. The nave has a panelled roof with trusses shaped like shallow pointed arches, decorated with arcading in the spandrels. A monument to Sir John Pelham, who died in 1550, is located in the north wall; it was removed from Stanmer House and features kneeling figures set within an architrave, topped by the Pelham arms. The organ, built in 1839, was originally a mechanical organ made by W Pilcher of London.