Viaduct Road, Calvary Evangelical Church, Brighton

Conservation Area (CA)

No CA.

Local Listing Reference

LLHA0225.

Description

Built in 1876 by James Barnes as a Primitive Methodist Chapel. In 1895 it was taken over as a Railway Mission Hall for workers at the nearby railway works.

Dark yellow-brown brick with symmetrical facade. Gable end with small turret finials to centre containing 3 lancet windows, flanked by lower pitched roof sections on either side, each containing a door. Machicolations to parapet.

Beneath the lancet windows, an inscription reads ‘Railway Mission’.

Source: Antram & Pevsner 2013, Carder 1990.

A. Architectural, design and artistic interest

ii. A well-executed example of a modest late 19th-century chapel building.

C. Townscape interest

ii. Not within a conservation area, the building contributes greatly to the street scene.

F. Intactness

i. The original boundary and steps have been altered to ramps to provide disabled access. The remainder of the front elevation appears to survive intact.

Date of Inclusion

2015.