Brighton is home to a huge number of beautiful churches and old religious buildings. Some churches date back to the 18th century and are beautiful buildings of architectural, historical, cultural and religious value. This walking tour will take you to the most important religious sites in Brighton.
1) St Bartholomew's Church
St Bartholomew's Church, dedicated to the apostle Bartholomew, is an Anglican church in Brighton. The neo-gothic building is located on Ann Street, on a sloping site between Brighton railway station and the A23 London Road. It is notable for its height – dominating the streets around it and being visible from many parts of the city – and its distinctive red-brick construction. High walls of reddish-brown brick, now aged to a purplish-brown color, are topped by a steeply pitched roof with dark tiling. The church is a Grade I-listed building, meaning that it is a building "of outstanding or national architectural or historic interest". Its size gives it unique acoustics and the ability to accommodate large numbers of people, which have made it an ideal venue for classical and other music concerts.
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2) St Peter's Anglican Church
St Peter's Church is an Anglican church in Brighton. It stands near the centre of the town, on an island between two major roads, the A23 "London Road" and A270 "Lewes Road". Built from 1824-28 to a design by Sir Charles Barry, it is arguably the finest example of the pre-Victorian Gothic Revival style. It has been the parish church of Brighton since 1873, and is sometimes unofficially referred to as "Brighton's cathedral". St Peter's is the proud owner of a large and fine pipe organ built in 1888 for the Hampstead Conservatoire of Music by Henry Willis and brought to Brighton in 1910.
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3) Gloucester Place Baptist Church
Gloucester Place Baptist Church is another religious building in Brighton. The church is situated on Gloucester Place, up the prominent Victoria Gardens. Gloucester Place Baptist Church is pretty large and features brick walls and decorated windows.
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4) Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church
The Church of the Holy Trinity is a Greek Orthodox church in Brighton. Built in 1840 in one of Brighton's most notorious slum districts, Carlton Hill, it was an Anglican church for most of its life: dedicated to St. John the Evangelist, it was used by the Anglican community until it was declared redundant in 1980. After some uncertainty about its future, it was sold to Brighton's Greek Orthodox community in 1985 and has been used as their permanent place of worship since then. Reflecting its architectural and historical importance, it has been listed at Grade II since 1971.
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5) Park Hill Evangelical Church
Park Hill Evangelical Church can be found on Park Hill, on the road to south Queens Park in Brighton. This building was formerly St Andrew's Presbyterian Church from 1894 until 1943. Traditional religious services are held on Sunday and some other days as well.
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6) St Mary the Virgin Church
St Mary the Virgin Church is an Anglican church in the Kemptown area of Brighton. The present building dates from the late 1870s and replaced a church of the same name which suddenly collapsed while being renovated. The Gothic-style red-brick building, whose style resembles Early English revival and French Gothic revival, is now a Grade II (particularly important buildings of more than special interest) listed building, and remains in use despite threats of closure. It was built of Flemish-bonded red brick with some external sandstone and terracotta dressings and Bath stonework inside.
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7) Chapel Royal
The Chapel Royal is an 18th-century place of worship in the centre of Brighton. Built as a chapel of ease, it became one of Brighton's most important churches, gaining its own parish and becoming closely associated with the Prince Regent and fashionable Regency-era society. It no longer has a parish of its own, but services are still held there. The main weekly service at the Chapel Royal is held on Sundays. Other services are held on Saturdays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. There has been a long musical tradition at the chapel; concerts have been held right from the beginning, and continue to be a regular feature, usually on Tuesdays.
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8) St Paul's Church
St Paul's Church, dedicated to the missionary and Apostle to the Gentiles Paul of Tarsus, is a Church of England parish church in Brighton. It is located on West Street in the city centre, close to the seafront and the main shopping areas. The church was the fourth to have been built on the instruction of Rev. Henry Michell Wagner, Vicar of Brighton since 1824. St Paul's church opened to the public on 18 October 1848 after approximately two years of building works. The exterior of the church consists of knapped flint dressed with Caen stone, a type of limestone also used on the Tower of London. Inside, as well as a nave and chancel, there are two vestries, an organ chamber and a small "crypt chapel" dug into sloping ground. This subsequently became a library. One of the vestries was originally built as a reading-room; it is now known as the "Fishermen's Vestry".
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9) St Nicholas Church
The Church of Saint Nicholas of Myra, usually known as St. Nicholas Church, is an Anglican church in Brighton. It is both the original parish church of Brighton and the oldest surviving building in Brighton. It is located on high ground at the junction of Church Street and Dyke Road in the city centre, very close to the main shopping areas. Due to its architectural significance, the church is a Grade II listed building. In its current form, St. Nicholas church dates from the mid-14th century, although the tower that was built at that time used some stones of Norman origin, which may have come from the original church.
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10) St. Mary Magdalen Church
St Mary Magdalen's Church is a Roman Catholic church in Brighton. It is one of six Roman Catholic churches in Brighton and one of eleven in the city area. Built by ecclesiastical architect Gilbert Blount in a 13th-century Gothic style to serve the rapidly expanding residential area on the border of Brighton and Hove, it has been listed at Grade II by English Heritage in view of its architectural importance. The brick and stone tower tapers in three stages and is topped with a spire of stone. The layout consists of a chancel, five-bay nave, aisles, vestry and the tower in which a porch and the entrance door are incorporated. There are lancet windows with ornate tracery on all sides and on the middle and upper stages of the tower. The stone dressings on the exterior have intricate carvings.
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