Landmarks and notable buildings of Brighton and Hove

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

Contents 1 Extant 1.1 Buildings and structures 1.2 Galleries 1.3 Parks and other open air attractions 2 Extinct 3 Proposed and/or planned 4 See also

[edit] Extant

[edit] 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[1], 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.

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
• All Saints' Church, Hove
• Saint Bartholomew's Church
• Saint Nicholas' Church
• Saint Paul's Church
• Saint Peter's Church
• 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

[edit] Galleries

• Phoenix Arts Association

[edit] 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

[edit] Extinct

• Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway ("Daddy Long Legs")
• The Royal Suspension Chain Pier

[edit] Proposed and/or planned

• The i360 (a.k.a. The Brighton Eye)

[edit] 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.
• Phoenix Arts Association[[2]]