The
city
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...
of
Brighton and Hove (made up of the towns of
Brighton
Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London.
Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze A ...
and
Hove
Hove is a seaside resort and one of the two main parts of the city of Brighton and Hove, along with Brighton in East Sussex, England. Originally a "small but ancient fishing village" surrounded by open farmland, it grew rapidly in the 19th cen ...
) on the south coast of
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
,
UK has a number notable buildings and landmarks.
Extant
Buildings and structures
![Brighton March 2017 03](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Brighton_March_2017_03.jpg)
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Bedford Hotel, the present building being a replacement for one of Brighton's oldest and grandest hotels
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Brighton Centre
Brighton Centre is a conference and exhibition centre located in Brighton, England. It is the largest of its kind in southern England, and is regularly used for conferences of the British political parties and other bodies of national importa ...
, a concert venue and conference centre known for hosting conferences for many of the major
political parties
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or pol ...
of the UK
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Brighton Marina
Brighton Marina is an artificial marina situated in Brighton, England. It features a working harbour and residential housing alongside a variety of leisure, retail and commercial activities. The construction of the marina itself took place betw ...
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Brighton Pier (also known as ''Palace Pier'', and as ''Brighton Marine Palace and Pier'')
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Brighton railway station
*The
British Engineerium
The British Engineerium (formerly Brighton and Hove Engineerium) is an engineering and steam power museum in Hove, East Sussex. It is housed in the Goldstone Pumping Station, a set of High Victorian Gothic buildings started in 1866. The Goldst ...
*The
Brunswick estate, Hove (a
Regency housing development)
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Churchill Square, the largest shopping centre in Brighton
*The
Clock Tower
Clock towers are a specific type of structure which house a turret clock and have one or more clock faces on the upper exterior walls. Many clock towers are freestanding structures but they can also adjoin or be located on top of another buildi ...
, a prominent landmark between Brighton Station and the seafront
*The
County Ground, home of
Sussex County Cricket Club
Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Sussex. Its limited overs team is called the Sussex Sharks. The c ...
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Duke of York's Picture House
The Duke of York's Picture House is an art house cinema in Brighton, England, which lays claim to being the oldest cinema in continuous use in Britain. According to cinema historian Allen Eyles, the cinema "deserves to be named Britain's oldest ...
, the oldest continuously operating cinema in Britain
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Embassy Court
Embassy Court is an 11-storey block of flats on the seafront in Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. It has been listed at Grade II* by English Heritage. Wells Coates' "extremely controversial" piece of Modernist architectu ...
, a starkly modernist 1930s design adjacent to Regency Brunswick Terrace; was a prototype for a proposed redevelopment of the entire seafront. Was refurbished in the mid-2000s.
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Falmer Stadium
The Falmer Stadium, known for sponsorship purposes as the American Express Community Stadium and also referred to as the Amex, is a football stadium in the village of Falmer, in the City of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex. With a capacity of 31 ...
, the home of
Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club
Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club (), commonly referred to simply as Brighton, is an English professional football club based in the city of Brighton and Hove. They compete in the Premier League, the top tier of the English football league ...
*The
Grand Hotel A grand hotel is a large and luxurious hotel, especially one housed in a building with traditional architectural style. It began to flourish in the 1800s in Europe and North America.
Grand Hotel may refer to:
Hotels Africa
* Grande Hotel Beir ...
*The Hanbury Arms incorporates as its ballroom a former mausoleum in an Indian architectural style, built for
Edward Sassoon
Sir Edward Albert Sassoon, 2nd Baronet (20 June 1856 – 24 May 1912) was a British businessman and politician.
Early life
A member of the Sassoon family, he was born on 20 June 1856 in Bombay, India. He was the son of Hannah Moise and Albert A ...
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Hove railway station
Hove railway station serves Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is measured from . The station and the majority of trains serving it are operated by Southern.
Gatwick Express trains stable at Hove from time to time.
It is th ...
*The
British Airways i360
Brighton i360 is a moving observation tower on the seafront of Brighton, East Sussex, England at the landward end of the remains of the West Pier. The tower opened on 4 August 2016. From the fully enclosed viewing pod, visitors experience 360-d ...
, the tallest structure in the city at 162 m.
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Kemp Town (a
Regency housing development)
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The Lanes, an area of Brighton known for its small, twisting series of pedestrianised streets housing many independent shops
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Marine Gate
Marine Gate is a large block of flats built in 1939 to the design of architects Wimperis, Simpson and Guthrie. It stands to the East of the English seaside resort of Brighton bordering Whitehawk and Roedean, and is situated in the Rottingdean Coas ...
, a 1930s apartment block in the International/Modern style on the eastern approach to Brighton.
*The
Metropole Hotel
*The
New England Quarter
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North Laine
North Laine is a shopping and residential district of Brighton, on the English south coast. Once a slum area, it is now seen as Brighton's bohemian and cultural quarter, with many pubs, cafés, theatres and museums.
History
"Laine" is a Su ...
, sometimes incorrectly referred to as "North Laines", North Laine is a group of streets known for their many independent and bohemian shops
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The Pylons, a pair of three-sided stone pillars either side of the southbound
A23 road
The A23 road is a major road in the United Kingdom between London and Brighton, East Sussex, England. It is managed by Transport for London for the section inside the Greater London boundary, Surrey County Council and West Sussex County Council ...
marking the boundary point of Brighton, and carrying a message of welcome for visitors
*The
Regency Town House
The Regency Town House is a Grade I listed historic town house, now a museum, in Brunswick, an area of Hove in Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, England. The Regency Town House is located at 13 Brunswick Square near the beach in Hove. Brunswick Squa ...
*The
Royal Pavilion
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Sassoon Mausoleum
The Sassoon Mausoleum is the former grave of Sir Albert Sassoon and other members of his family, including Sir Edward Sassoon, 2nd Baronet, of Kensington Gore. It stands at 83 St. George's Road in Brighton, England. The single-storey building, ...
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Stanmer House
Stanmer House is a Grade I listed mansion set in Stanmer Park west of the village of Falmer and north-east of the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England.
The house stands close to Stanmer village and Church, within Stanmer Park. Cons ...
*The
University of Sussex
, mottoeng = Be Still and Know
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £14.4 million (2020)
, budget = £319.6 million (2019–20)
, chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar
, vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil
, ...
, a radical 1960s campus design by
Sir Basil Spence
Sir Basil Urwin Spence, (13 August 1907 – 19 November 1976) was a Scottish architect, most notably associated with Coventry Cathedral in England and the Beehive in New Zealand, but also responsible for numerous other buildings in the Moderni ...
, some of which is
listed
*The
West Pier
The West Pier is a ruined pier in Brighton, England. It was designed by Eugenius Birch and opened in 1866. It was the first pier to be Grade I listed in England and Wales but has become increasingly derelict since its closure to the publi ...
*The
Western Pavilion
The Western Pavilion is an exotically designed early 19th-century house in the centre of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. Local architect Amon Henry Wilds, one of the most important figures in Brighton's development from mo ...
, self-made home of prolific local architect
Amon Henry Wilds
Amon Henry Wilds (1784 or 1790 – 13 July 1857) was an English architect. He was part of a team of three architects and builders who—working together or independently at different times—were almost solely responsible for a surge in resid ...
, son of
Amon Wilds and sometime working partner of
Charles Busby
*White Lodge, The Cliff,
Roedean
Roedean is a village in the city of Brighton and Hove, England, UK, east of the seaside resort of Brighton.
Notable buildings and areas
Roedean Gap is a slight dip in the cliffs between Black Rock and Ovingdean Gap, and has been known by the ...
; an atypically small house by
Sir Edwin Lutyens, built for
Victoria Sackville-West
Victoria Josefa Dolores Catalina Sackville-West (Baroness Sackville), (23 September 1862 – 30 January 1936) was a British noblewoman, mother of the writer, poet, and gardener Vita Sackville-West.
Early life
Victoria was one of seven ...
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Withdean Stadium
Churches and places of worship
''This is a small list of the most notable. See also
List of places of worship in Brighton and Hove
The city of Brighton and Hove, on the south coast of England, has more than 100 extant churches and other places of worship, which serve a variety of Christian denominations and other religions. More than 50 former religious buildings, althou ...
.''
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All Saints Church, Hove
All Saints Hove is an Anglican church in Hove, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. It has served as the parish church for the whole of Hove since 1892, and stands in a prominent location at a major crossroads in central Hove.
History ...
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St Bartholomew's Church, Brighton
St Bartholomew's Church, dedicated to the apostle Bartholomew, is an Anglican church in Brighton, England. The neo-gothic building is located on Ann Street, on a sloping site between Brighton railway station and the A23 London Road, adjacent t ...
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St Nicholas Church, Brighton
The Church of Saint Nicholas of Myra, usually known as St. Nicholas Church, is an Anglican church in Brighton, England. It is both the original parish church of Brighton and, after St Helen's Church, Hangleton and St Peter's Church in Preston ...
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St Paul's Church, Brighton
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, Sussex, England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land ...
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St Peter's Church, Brighton
St Peter's Church is a church in Brighton in the English city of Brighton and Hove. It is near the centre of the city, 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 ...
Galleries
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Phoenix Arts Association
Murals
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Brighton Belle street mural, a view of the
Brighton Belle train in
Brighton Station, painted in the arches of the station's forecourt.
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Kissing Coppers, a mural by the artist
Banksy on the side of
The Prince Albert in Trafalgar Street.
Parks and other open air attractions
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Hove Park
Hove Park is a park within the English city of Brighton & Hove. It is also the name of an electoral ward in Brighton and Hove whose population at the 2011 census was 10,602.
Overview
A paved path goes all round the park, approximately 1.17 mil ...
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Preston Park
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Queen's Park
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St. Ann's Well Gardens
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Stanmer Park
Stanmer Park is a large public park immediately to the west of the University of Sussex, and to the north-east of the city of Brighton in the county of East Sussex, England, United Kingdom, UK. It is a Local Nature Reserve and English Heritage, un ...
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Volk's Electric Railway
Extinct
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Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway ''("Daddy Long Legs")''
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The Royal Suspension Chain Pier
The Royal Suspension Chain Pier was the first major pier built in Brighton, England. Opened on 25 November 1823, it was destroyed during a storm on 4 December 1896.
History
Generally known as the ''Chain Pier'', it was designed by Captain Sa ...
See also
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Buildings and architecture of Brighton and Hove
Brighton and Hove, a city on the English Channel coast in southeast England, has a large and diverse stock of buildings "unrivalled architecturally" among the country's seaside resorts. The urban area, designated a city in 2000, is made up of the ...
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List of places of worship in Brighton and Hove
The city of Brighton and Hove, on the south coast of England, has more than 100 extant churches and other places of worship, which serve a variety of Christian denominations and other religions. More than 50 former religious buildings, althou ...
(which includes some of those insufficiently notable to have been included in this list).
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Brighton
Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London.
Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze A ...
and
Hove
Hove is a seaside resort and one of the two main parts of the city of Brighton and Hove, along with Brighton in East Sussex, England. Originally a "small but ancient fishing village" surrounded by open farmland, it grew rapidly in the 19th cen ...
, constituent towns of the city.
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