Brighton - St. Peter's Church RP c.1940s

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• Picture / Image:  St. Peter's Church, Brighton, East Sussex - real photo
• Publisher:  none given BN22
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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St Peter's Church is an Anglican church in Brighton, in the English city of Brighton and Hove. It stands near the centre of the town, on an island between two major roads, the A23 "London Road" and A270 "Lewes Road". Built from 1824-28 to a design by Sir Charles Barry, it is arguably the finest example of the pre-Victorian Gothic Revival style. It is a Grade II* listed building.^[1] It has been the parish church of Brighton since 1873,^[2] and is sometimes unofficially referred to as "Brighton's cathedral".

The church of St Peter was originally created as a chapel of ease associated with Brighton's oldest church and its existing parish church, St. Nicholas. The contract to design the new church was won in open competition by Charles Barry, then only in his mid-twenties. It was built in an approximation of the 14th- and 15th-century Perpendicular or Late Gothic style, typical of the so-called Commissioner's Churches, of which Saint Peter's was one. This was by no means to be a studious revival of its style in the manner of Barry's pupil Augustus Pugin, but, to quote Nikolaus Pevsner, "(it) remedies this fault by remarkable inventiveness and boldness".

The foundation stone was laid by the Vicar of Brighton, Rev. R. J. Carr D.D., on 8 May 1824,^[4] at a location which was at the time "the entrance to the town"^[5] but which is now in the city centre, following the rapid development of Brighton since that date. The ceremony of consecration was led by the same man on 25 January 1828.

A spire was designed by Barry in 1841, but it was never built. The side aisles originally had galleries (such as those to be seen at churches such as Christ Church, Spitalfields), but these were taken down, as were so many, as a result of the cultural and liturgical changes made in the wake of the Oxford Movement.

Barry's hexagonal apse was demolished in 1898 to make way for a much larger, straight-ended chancel designed by Somers Clarke and J. T. Mickelthwaite, built in Sussex sandstone, its warm hue contrasting with the cold, white appearance of the Portland stone in which the rest of the church was built. The building work continued until 1906.^[6] The new chancel, which is 53 feet (16.2m) long and 35 feet (10.7m) wide,^[7] was consecrated in the presence of the then Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Randall Thomas Davidson.