LANDMARKS AND NOTABLE BUILDINGS OF BRIGHTON AND HOVE

The city of Brighton and Hove on the south coast of England, UK has a number notable buildings and landmarks.

Contents

Extant

Buildings and structures

Parks and other open air attractions

Extinct

Proposed and/or planned

See also

Extant

Buildings and structures

★ Bedford Hotel (Brighton), the present building being a replacement for one of Brighton's oldest and grandest hotels

★ The Brighton Centre, a concert venue and conference centre known for hosting conferences for many of the major political parties of the UK

★ Brighton Marina

★ Brighton Pier (also known as ''Palace Pier'', and as ''Brighton Marine Palace and Pier'')

★ Brighton railway station

★ The British Engineerium (see external site)

★ The Brunswick estate, Hove (a Regency housing development)

★ Churchill Square, the largest shopping centre in Brighton

★ The County Ground, home of Sussex County Cricket Club

★ Duke of York's Picture House, the oldest continuously operating cinema in Britain

★ Embassy Court, 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.

★ The Grand Hotel

★ The Hanbury Arms incorporates as its ballroom a former mausoleum in an Indian architectural style, built for Edward Sassoon

★ Kemp Town (a Regency housing development)

★ The Pylons — a pair of three-sided stone pillars either side of the southbound A23 road marking the boundary point of Brighton, and carrying a message of welcome for new visitors, a welcome-back for returning visitors, and a welcome home for locals.
:The Pylons originally straddled the entire A23 before it was upgraded and widened in the early 1990s; one was moved to allow for the change in the carriageways.

★ The Royal Pavilion

★ Saint Bartholomew's Church

★ Saint Nicholas' Church

★ Saint Paul's Church

★ Saint Peter's Church

★ Stanmer House

★ The West Pier

★ The Western Pavilion, self-made home of prolific local architect Amon Henry Wilds, son of Amon Wilds and sometime working partner of Charles Busby

★ White Lodge, The Cliff, Roedean; an atypically small house by Sir Edwin Lutyens, built for Victoria Sackville

★ Withdean Stadium, current home of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.

★ The Lanes

Parks and other open air attractions

★ Brighton Nudist Beach

★ Hove Park

★ Preston Park

★ Queen's Park

★ St. Anne's Well Gardens

★ Stanmer Park

★ Volk's Electric Railway

Extinct

★ Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway ''("Daddy Long Legs")''

★ The Royal Suspension Chain Pier

Proposed and/or planned

★ The i360

★ The New England Quarter

See also

★ Churches of Brighton (which includes some of those insufficiently notable to have been included in this list).

★ Brighton and Hove, constituent towns of the city.

★ The University of Sussex nearby — a radical 1960s campus design by Sir Basil Spence, some of which is listed.