Landmarks and notable buildings of Brighton and Hove

Landmarks and notable buildings of Brighton and Hove

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

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 [http://www.britishengineerium.com/ 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 [http://www.embassycourt.org] , 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 Metropole Hotel
*The New England Quarter
*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. They 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 Regency Town House
*The Royal Pavilion
*Stanmer House
*The University of Sussex, a radical 1960s campus design by Sir Basil Spence, some of which is listed
*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

Churches and places of worship

:"This is a small list of the most notable. See also Churches and places of worship in Brighton and Hove."
*All Saints Church, Hove
*Saint Bartholomew's Church
*Saint Nicholas' Church
*Saint Paul's Church
*Saint Peter's Church

Galleries

*Phoenix Arts Association

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 (a.k.a. The Brighton Eye)

ee also

*Churches and places of worship in Brighton and Hove (which includes some of those insufficiently notable to have been included in this list).
*Brighton and Hove, constituent towns of the city.


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