List of demolished places of worship in Brighton and Hove
Demolished places of worship

List of demolished places of worship in Brighton and Hove

Section Title: Demolished places of worship
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Name	Denomination	Area	Completed	Demolished	Present use of site	Notes	Refs

All Saints Church	Anglican	Seven Dials 50°49′50″N 0°08′39″W / 50.8306°N 0.1443°W	1853	1957	Residential (White Lodge)	Richard Cromwell Carpenter designed this flint and stone church in the Decorated Gothic style for Reverend Henry Michell Wagner. He commissioned it to serve the rapidly developing residential streets of West Hill and Seven Dials, whose growth had been stimulated by the opening of the railway line to London.

All Souls Church	Anglican	Kemptown 50°49′16″N 0°07′36″W / 50.8211°N 0.1267°W	1838	1968	Residential (Miles Court)	This was the first church planned and endowed by Reverend Henry Michell Wagner. Intended to serve the poor area which had developed west of the high-class Kemp Town estate, it was founded in 1833 and consecrated in 1834; building work continued for four years.

Christ Church	Anglican	Montpelier 50°49′28″N 0°09′12″W / 50.8245°N 0.1534°W	1837	1982	Residential (Christ Church House)	Another of Wagner's churches, this Gothic Revival structure was designed by George Cheeseman junior—architect of several Brighton churches. Its spire, atop a short tower with dominant pinnacles, was identical to that at Chichester Cathedral.

Church of the Holy Resurrection	Anglican	Brighton 50°49′21″N 0°08′47″W / 50.8226°N 0.1463°W	1876	1968	Commercial (Churchill Square shopping centre)	One of five churches founded by Henry Michell Wagner's son Arthur, this had a short life: it closed in 1908 and was used by the West Street Brewery and (from 1912) for meat storage.

St Alban's Church	Anglican	Coombe Road 50°50′23″N 0°07′08″W / 50.8398°N 0.1188°W	1910	2013	Residential	Lacy W. Ridge built this church between 1910 and 1914 to serve the Coombe Road suburb east of Lewes Road—an area historically known as East Preston.

St Anne's Church	Anglican	Kemptown 50°49′08″N 0°07′27″W / 50.8190°N 0.1242°W	1863	1986	Residential (St Anne's Court)	Sheltered housing now stands on the site of Wagner's last church, which served a mostly middle-class area near Brighton seafront. The Decorated Gothic-style stone church was the work of prolific architect Benjamin Ferrey.

St James's Church	Anglican	Kemptown 50°49′15″N 0°07′56″W / 50.8207°N 0.1322°W	1875	1950	Commercial (Co-op)	A chapel with the same dedication, built in 1810 and used for Anglican worship from 1826, was replaced by Edmund Scott's brick, flint and stone Early English-style church.

St Margaret's Church	Anglican	Brighton 50°49′22″N 0°08′55″W / 50.8227°N 0.1487°W	1824	1959	Residential (Sussex Heights)	Extravagant local businessman Barnard Gregory commissioned one of Brighton's leading architects, Charles Busby, to design a proprietary chapel for him in an area of Brighton he was trying to encourage fashionable, high-class people to visit.

St Mary & St Mary Magdalene's Church	Anglican	North Laine 50°49′30″N 0°08′27″W / 50.8251°N 0.1407°W	1862	1963	Commercial (Sovereign House)	Only a tiny stub of Bread Street, where this church was built, survives: the rest was lost under the large headquarters of International Factors (later GMAC Commercial Finance).

St Matthew's Church	Anglican	Queen's Park 50°49′24″N 0°07′15″W / 50.8233°N 0.1207°W	1881	1967	Residential (St Matthew's Court)	John Norton designed this large concrete, flint and stone church in the Early English style. It replaced a tin tabernacle and was consecrated in 1883.

St Saviour's Church	Anglican	Round Hill 50°50′10″N 0°08′02″W / 50.8360°N 0.1339°W	1886	1983	Residential (St Saviour's Court)	Edmund Scott and F.T. Cawthorn's Early English-style church served middle-class housing around Ditchling Road.

Adullam Chapel	Baptist	Brighton 50°49′26″N 0°08′34″W / 50.8240°N 0.1428°W	1840	c. 1920	Commercial (Regent Cinema; later Boots the Chemist)	John Austin from the Providence Chapel in Church Street founded this in 1840. It was later called Windsor Street Chapel, and spent 40 years in religious use until a fire wrecked it in 1880.

Ebenezer Strict Baptist Chapel	Baptist	Carlton Hill 50°49′37″N 0°07′57″W / 50.8269°N 0.1326°W	1825	1966	Residential (Normanhurst)	This opened on 13 April 1825 near the bottom of Richmond Street (now Richmond Parade), Brighton's steepest road. It was stuccoed and in the Renaissance style.

Horeb Tabernacle	Baptist	Preston Park 50°50′43″N 0°08′41″W / 50.8452°N 0.1447°W	1917	c. 1980	Residential (Florence Court)	Also known as Preston Park Baptist Church, this brick chapel stood near the northeast corner of the park. It was demolished to make way for a block of flats.

Mighell Street Hall	Baptist	Carlton Hill 50°49′22″N 0°07′57″W / 50.8227°N 0.1325°W	1878	c. 1965	Commercial (Amex House)	Founded by Thomas Boxall or George Virgo of Bethel Chapel, Wivelsfield (sources disagree) as a Strict Baptist chapel, this building became the parish hall of nearby St John the Evangelist's Church in 1910.

Montpelier Place Baptist Church	Baptist	Montpelier 50°49′37″N 0°09′15″W / 50.8269°N 0.1541°W	1967	2018	Vacant	This modern brick building was opened in 1967 on the site of the Emmanuel Reformed Episcopal Church (1867–1965). Designed by E.

Moulsecoomb Way Baptist Church	Baptist	Moulsecoomb 50°51′05″N 0°06′31″W / 50.8513°N 0.1085°W	1953	1988	Leisure centre	This was built on the Moulsecoomb estate in 1953 and registered for marriages in 1956, but was said to be derelict at the time of its compulsory purchase by the council, who wanted to build Moulsecoomb Leisure Centre on the site.

Portslade Baptist Chapel	Baptist	Portslade 50°49′53″N 0°12′45″W / 50.8314°N 0.2126°W	1882	1960	Commercial	A.R. Parr designed the local Baptist community's first church, which they occupied until 1959.

Providence Baptist Chapel	Baptist	Hove 50°49′51″N 0°10′25″W / 50.8308°N 0.1736°W	1868	c. 1980	Commercial	Ebenezer Turquand, a member of the Salem Chapel in Brighton, extended Strict Baptist worship into neighbouring Hove by founding this chapel on a small street near St Andrew's Church.

Salem Strict Baptist Chapel	Baptist	Brighton 50°49′24″N 0°08′25″W / 50.8232°N 0.1402°W	1861	1974	Commercial (Edge House)	Brighton's first Baptist chapel, founded by members of Bethel Strict Baptist Chapel at Wivelsfield, was built on the site in 1787.

Stoneham Road Baptist Church	Baptist	Aldrington 50°50′06″N 0°11′14″W / 50.8350°N 0.1872°W	1904	2008	Residential (Poets Place)	Clayton & Black built this church of red brick in 1904, but it now has a roughcast exterior and was extended in 1931.

Sussex Street Strict Baptist Chapel	Baptist	Carlton Hill 50°49′32″N 0°08′04″W / 50.8255°N 0.1345°W	c. 1867	1937	Commercial (Circus Street Municipal Market)	This stuccoed church with lancet windows was built in a slum area at the west end of Sussex Street (a section now called Morley Street).

Tabernacle Strict Baptist Chapel	Baptist	Brighton 50°49′21″N 0°08′41″W / 50.8224°N 0.1447°W	1834	1965	Religious (Wagner Hall)	Architectural features of this Neoclassical building included a pediment and a stuccoed exterior. After a period of disuse, it was demolished during the Churchill Square redevelopment and replaced with the Wagner Hall, used as the church hall of the neighbouring St Paul's.

Brethren Meeting Room	Brethren	Patcham 50°52′02″N 0°09′09″W / 50.8672°N 0.1526°W	1965	2012	Residential	The concrete-walled, flat-roofed building which stood at the northern edge of Patcham until November 2012 was built in 1965 for 750 worshippers.

Hollingbury Hall	Brethren	Hollingdean 50°50′37″N 0°07′54″W / 50.8435°N 0.1316°W	1932	2007	Residential	The building dated from 1932 but was registered as a place of worship in 1947. It was used by Brethren and later by an Evangelical organisation called Christian Fellowship.

Stretton Hall	Brethren	Aldrington 50°50′07″N 0°12′09″W / 50.8354°N 0.2025°W	a.-1963	2015	Residential	This small Vernacular-style building closed in the early 21st century and passed into commercial use. Its registration for worship was formally cancelled in December 2009.

Winton Gospel Hall	Brethren	Rottingdean 50°48′46″N 0°03′44″W / 50.8127°N 0.0623°W	c. 1950	2010	Residential	A single-storey meeting room for Exclusive Brethren was built on the Falmer Road and registered for marriages in November 1950. It had a hipped roof and roughcast walls.

Central Free Church (Union Church)	Congregational	Brighton 50°49′27″N 0°08′38″W / 50.8243°N 0.1438°W	1853	1984	Commercial (Queen Square House)	Described as having "fine townscape value" (but, to Pevsner, "a restless group"), this large Early English-style stone church was in the commercial heart of Brighton on a corner site.

London Road Congregational Church	Congregational	New England Quarter 50°49′49″N 0°08′14″W / 50.8303°N 0.1371°W	1830	1976	Residential	This Neoclassical building by William Simpson was endowed by local solicitor Henry Brooker, and was used by the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion until 1881.

The Dials Congregational Church	Congregational	Montpelier 50°49′44″N 0°08′50″W / 50.8290°N 0.1471°W	1870	1972	Residential (Homelees House)	A 150-foot (46 m) "Rhenish helm"-topped clock tower dominated this church and the skyline, forming one of Brighton's most prominent landmarks until its demolition in April 1972.

Connaught Christian Fellowship (New Life Church)	Evangelical	Round Hill 50°50′09″N 0°07′30″W / 50.8359°N 0.1249°W	1897	2010	Vacant	This red-brick and terracotta building had many uses, both religious and secular, before finally falling into dereliction by 2003. It faced Lewes Road and Melbourne Street, and had entrances in both.

Immanuel Community Church	Evangelical	Hanover 50°49′43″N 0°07′34″W / 50.8286°N 0.1262°W	1881	2003	Residential (Immanuel House)	This began as a Primitive Methodist chapel. In 1893 it was turned into the Islingword Road Mission Chapel, which was previously housed in a tin tabernacle.

The Downs Free Church	Evangelical	Woodingdean 50°50′17″N 0°04′33″W / 50.8380°N 0.0759°W	1932	1991	Residential	This church stood on Downsway, and opened during the early stages of Woodingdean's suburban development. It was extended later in the 20th century, and was in use until 1991.

Norfolk Road Methodist Church	Methodist	Montpelier 50°49′32″N 0°09′17″W / 50.8256°N 0.1548°W	1868	1965	Residential (Braemar House)	This large church of flint and stone had much stained glass and a turret-style tower at one corner. C.O.

Preston Park Methodist Church	Methodist	Preston Park 50°50′08″N 0°08′34″W / 50.8356°N 0.1428°W	1883	1974	Commercial (London Gate)	The Methodist community erected this church in 1883 on the site of a tin tabernacle which they had been using for worship.

Sussex Street Primitive Methodist Chapel	Methodist	Carlton Hill 50°49′31″N 0°08′00″W / 50.8253°N 0.1333°W	1836	c. 1950	Residential (Kingswood Flats)	One historian has identified this as the first Primitive Methodist place of worship in Sussex. It was a Classical-style stuccoed building with arched windows and topped with a pediment.

Christ Church Independent Chapel	Independent	New England Quarter 50°50′02″N 0°08′24″W / 50.8338°N 0.1400°W	1874	1997	Residential (Amber House)	J.G. Gibbins designed this church for an Independent congregation in 1874, but it had other religious uses and periods of closure before it finally fell out of use in the 1980s.

Grand Parade Chapel	Independent	Brighton 50°49′33″N 0°08′06″W / 50.8257°N 0.1351°W	1835	1938	Widened road	Attributed to George Cheeseman junior, designer of several churches in Brighton, this stuccoed Gothic Revival building housed Independent worshippers for its first few years before being taken on by the Catholic Apostolic Church (1853–65) and the Free Church of England later.

Our Lady Star of the Sea & St Denis Church	Roman Catholic	Portslade 50°50′02″N 0°12′48″W / 50.8340°N 0.2132°W	1912	1991	Residential	The plain Romanesque Revival exterior of Portslade's Roman Catholic church, of roughcast and stone, contrasted with the extremely lavish Byzantine interior, decorated mostly by local artists.

St Louis, King of France Church	Roman Catholic	Whitehawk 50°49′04″N 0°06′14″W / 50.8177°N 0.1039°W	1964	1984	Residential (Henley Court)	This was a Mass centre (similar to a mission chapel) established on the Whitehawk housing estate by St John the Baptist's Church and served from it.

Goodwill Centre	Salvation Army	Moulsecoomb 50°51′08″N 0°06′17″W / 50.8521°N 0.1047°W	c. 1936	1956	Commercial	The Salvation Army established a hall on the Moulsecoomb estate in the 1930s, which was apparently run from the main Congress Hall at Park Crescent.

Salvation Army Citadel	Salvation Army	Carlton Hill 50°49′21″N 0°08′00″W / 50.8225°N 0.1333°W	1884	1965	Widened road	This stuccoed building stood opposite the south end of Dorset Gardens and was distinguished by its large crow-stepped parapet with a battlement-topped tower at each end.

Providence Chapel	Calvinist	North Laine 50°49′33″N 0°08′24″W / 50.8257°N 0.1400°W	1805	1965	Commercial	This chapel, of polychromatic patterned brick and topped by a pediment, was founded by W.J. Brook, a follower of William Huntington.

Carlton Hill Apostolic Church	Catholic Apostolic	Carlton Hill 50°49′26″N 0°08′06″W / 50.8239°N 0.1349°W	1865	1964	Educational (extension of Brighton Art College)	Brighton's Catholic Apostolic community formed in the 1830s and occupied Grand Parade Chapel for 18 years, but moved to this new building in 1865.

Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel	Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion	Brighton 50°49′21″N 0°08′24″W / 50.8226°N 0.1401°W	1870	1972	Commercial (Huntingdon House)	Three churches of this denomination occupied the site—its predecessors dated from 1761 and 1774—but John Wimble's stone and flint Early English-style building was the best known.

Elim Balfour Road Church	Elim Pentecostal	Preston Park 50°50′50″N 0°08′21″W / 50.8471°N 0.1393°W	1939	2007	Residential	This small brick building on Balfour Road dated from 1939, although it was registered for marriages in 1954. It was demolished in 2007 after planning permission was granted for two houses to be built on the site.

Kingdom Hall	Jehovah's Witnesses	Southern Cross 50°50′06″N 0°12′52″W / 50.8350°N 0.2145°W	c. 1950	2012	Residential	This former Kingdom Hall in Portslade, on Trafalgar Road close to Fishersgate railway station, was opened in the 1950s, extended several times and sold to a screen printing company in 1991.

Emmanuel Reformed Episcopal Church	Reformed Episcopal	Montpelier 50°49′37″N 0°09′15″W / 50.8269°N 0.1542°W	1867	1965	Vacant	The 1867 church which stood on this site for 98 years has been attributed to S. Hemmings and was a grey Gothic Revival building with a spire-topped tower at the southeast corner.

St Cuthbert's Church	United Reformed Church (Presbyterian)	Hove 50°49′54″N 0°09′37″W / 50.8318°N 0.1603°W	1904	1984	Residential (Bellmead)	This large church, by Edward Procter, formed a landmark on a corner site. His design was Decorated Gothic and used brick and stone with terracotta dressings.

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Reverend Henry Michell Wagner's first church was All Souls, built between 1833 and 1834, but demolished in 1968.

final_sentence: Reverend Henry Michell Wagner's first church was All Souls, built between 1833 and 1834, but demolished in 1968.