Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Brighton, United Kingdom

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 8 km
Ascend 177 m
Descend 178 m

Explore Brighton in United Kingdom with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Brighton

Sight 1: Saint Martin's Church

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Saint Martin's Church

St Martin's Church is an Anglican church in Brighton, England, dating from the mid-Victorian era. It is located on Lewes Road in the Round Hill area of the city, northeast of the city centre and approximately 1.1 miles (1.8 km) north of the seafront. It is the largest church in Brighton by capacity and is noted for its ornate interior.

Wikipedia: St Martin's Church, Brighton (EN)

348 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 2: St Joseph's Church

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St Joseph's Church

St Joseph's Church is a Roman Catholic church in the Elm Grove area of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. It is one of eleven Roman Catholic churches in the city. The church was built in several stages beginning in 1879, and outstanding debts meant that its official dedication did not take place until 1979. It has been listed at Grade II* by English Heritage in view of its architectural importance.

Wikipedia: St Joseph's Church, Brighton (EN), Website

465 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 3: Church of the Annunciation

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Church of the Annunciation

The Church of the Annunciation is an Anglican church in Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. It was one of several churches built in the 1860s on behalf of Rev. Arthur Wagner, the son of Rev. Henry Michell Wagner, Vicar of Brighton (1824–1870), and served a new area of poor housing in what is now the Hanover district. The church is a Grade II listed building.

Wikipedia: Church of the Annunciation, Brighton (EN)

827 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 4: Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church

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Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a Greek Orthodox church in Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. Built in 1838 in one of Brighton's most notorious slum districts, Carlton Hill, it was an Anglican church for most of its life: dedicated to St John the Evangelist, it was used by the Anglican community until it was declared redundant in 1980. After some uncertainty about its future, it was sold to Brighton's Greek Orthodox community in 1985 and has been used as their permanent place of worship since then. Reflecting its architectural and historical importance, it has been listed at Grade II since 1971.

Wikipedia: Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity, Brighton (EN)

543 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 5: Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

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Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery is a municipally-owned public museum and art gallery in the city of Brighton and Hove in the South East of England. It is part of Brighton & Hove Museums. It costs £9 for a yearly pass, discounted to £6.75 for Brighton and Hove residents and students at local universities.

Wikipedia: Brighton Museum & Art Gallery (EN), Website

146 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Royal Pavilion

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The Royal Pavilion, and surrounding gardens, also known as the Brighton Pavilion, is a Grade I listed former royal residence located in Brighton, England. Beginning in 1787, it was built in three stages as a seaside retreat for George, Prince of Wales, who became the Prince Regent in 1811, and King George IV in 1820. It is built in the Indo-Saracenic style prevalent in India for most of the 19th century. The current appearance of the Pavilion, with its domes and minarets, is the work of architect John Nash, who extended the building starting in 1815. George IV's successors William IV and Victoria also used the Pavilion, but Queen Victoria decided that Osborne House should be the royal seaside retreat, and the Pavilion was sold to the city of Brighton in 1850.

Wikipedia: Royal Pavilion (EN)

127 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: Chapel Royal

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Chapel Royal

The Chapel Royal is an 18th-century place of worship in the centre of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. Built as a chapel of ease, it became one of Brighton's most important churches, gaining its own parish and becoming closely associated with the Prince Regent and fashionable Regency-era society. It remains an active church.

Wikipedia: Chapel Royal, Brighton (EN)

162 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: Brighton Dome Studio Theatre

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Brighton Dome Studio Theatre

The Brighton Dome Studio Theatre is a theatre in Brighton, England. It is part of the wider Brighton Dome complex of buildings. It was built in 1935, originally as a supper room, but later converted into a theatre. Its audience capacity is 232 seated or 350 standing.

Wikipedia: Studio Theatre (Brighton) (EN)

28 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 9: Brighton Unitarian Church

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The Brighton Unitarian Church, previously known as Christ Church, is a Unitarian chapel in Brighton, England. Built in 1820 by prolific local architect Amon Henry Wilds on land sold to the fledgling Unitarian community by the Prince Regent, the stuccoed Greek Revival building occupies a prominent position near the corner of Church Road and New Road in the centre of Brighton, near the Royal Pavilion and the city's main theatres. It has had Grade II listed status since 1952. It is a member of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, the umbrella organisation for British Unitarians.

Wikipedia: Brighton Unitarian Church (EN), Website

180 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Theatre Royal

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Theatre RoyalIan Muttoo from Mississauga, Canada / CC BY-SA 2.0

The Theatre Royal, Brighton is a theatre in Brighton, England presenting a range of West End and touring musicals and plays, along with performances of opera and ballet.

Wikipedia: Theatre Royal, Brighton (EN)

300 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: Jubilee Clock Tower

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The Clock Tower is a free-standing clock tower in the centre of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. Built in 1888 in commemoration of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria, the distinctive structure included innovative structural features and became a landmark in the popular and fashionable seaside resort. The city's residents "retain a nostalgic affection" for it, even though opinion is sharply divided as to the tower's architectural merit. English Heritage has listed the clock tower at Grade II for its architectural and historical importance.

Wikipedia: Clock Tower, Brighton (EN)

618 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 12: Brighton Toy and Model Museum

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Brighton Toy and Model Museum is an independent toy museum situated in Brighton, East Sussex. Its collection focuses on toys and models produced in the UK and Europe up until the mid-Twentieth Century, and occupies four thousand square feet of floor space within four of the early Victorian arches supporting the forecourt of Brighton railway station. Founded in 1991, the museum holds over ten thousand toys and models, including model train collections, puppets, Corgi, Dinky, Budgie Toys, construction toys and radio-controlled aircraft.

Wikipedia: Brighton Toy and Model Museum (EN), Website

924 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 13: St Mary Magdalene's

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St Mary Magdalene's

St Mary Magdalen's Church is a Roman Catholic church in the Montpelier area of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. Dedicated to Jesus' companion Mary Magdalene, it is one of six Roman Catholic churches in Brighton and one of eleven in the city area. Built by ecclesiastical architect Gilbert Blount in a 13th-century Gothic style to serve the rapidly expanding residential area on the border of Brighton and Hove, it has been listed at Grade II by English Heritage in view of its architectural importance. An adjacent presbytery and parish hall have been listed separately at Grade II.

Wikipedia: St Mary Magdalen's Church, Brighton (EN)

266 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 14: First Church of Christ Scientist

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First Church of Christ Scientist

The First Church of Christ, Scientist is a church serving members of the Church of Christ, Scientist denomination in the English coastal city of Brighton and Hove. The present building, originally a "notable" private house in Brighton's exclusive Montpelier suburb, was extended and converted into a church by prolific local architecture firm Clayton & Black in 1921.

Wikipedia: First Church of Christ, Scientist (Brighton) (EN)

192 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: St Stephen's

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St Stephen's

St Stephen's Church is a former Anglican church in the Montpelier area of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. The building, which dates from 1766 in its original incarnation as the ballroom of Brighton's most fashionable Georgian-era inn, has been used for many purposes since then, and now stands 1 mile (1.6 km) away from where it was built. It spent less than 90 years as an Anglican church, and is now used as a centre for homeless people. In view of its architectural and historical importance, it has been listed at Grade II* by English Heritage.

Wikipedia: St Stephen's Church, Brighton (EN)

425 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 16: Hove Progressive Synagogue

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Hove Progressive Synagogue

Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue, also known as Adat Shalom Verei’ut, is a Liberal synagogue in Hove, Sussex, England. It was established in 1935 and now has more than 300 members.

Wikipedia: Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue (EN)

324 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 17: Holland Road Baptist Church

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Holland Road Baptist Church

Holland Road Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Hove, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. Built in 1887 to replace a temporary building on the same site, which had in turn superseded the congregation's previous meeting place in a nearby gymnasium, it expanded to take in nearby buildings and is a landmark on Holland Road, a main north–south route in Hove. It is one of ten extant Baptist church buildings in the city, and is the only one to have been listed by English Heritage in view of its architectural importance.

Wikipedia: Holland Road Baptist Church (EN)

441 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 18: Adelaide Crescent

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Adelaide Crescent

Adelaide Crescent is a mid-19th-century residential development in Hove, part of the English city and seaside resort of Brighton and Hove. Conceived as an ambitious attempt to rival the large, high-class Kemp Town estate east of Brighton, the crescent was not built to its original plan because time and money were insufficient. Nevertheless, together with its northerly neighbour Palmeira Square, it forms one of Hove's most important architectural set-pieces. Building work started in 1830 to the design of Decimus Burton. The adjacent land was originally occupied by "the world's largest conservatory", the Anthaeum; its collapse stopped construction of the crescent, which did not resume until the 1850s. The original design was modified and the crescent was eventually finished in the mid-1860s. Together with the Kemp Town and Brunswick Town estates, the crescent is one of the foremost pre-Victorian residential developments in the Brighton area: it has been claimed that "outside Bath, [they] have no superior in England". The buildings in the main part of Adelaide Crescent are Grade II* listed. Some of the associated buildings at the sea-facing south end are listed at the lower Grade II.

Wikipedia: Adelaide Crescent (EN)

804 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 19: The Old Market

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The Old Market, Hove is a historic building on the border of Brighton and Hove in England. It has served various functions, currently operating as an independent mixed-arts venue under the name "TOM – The Old Market".

Wikipedia: The Old Market, Hove (EN), Website

886 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 20: Regency Square

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Regency Square

Regency Square is a large early 19th-century residential development on the seafront in Brighton, part of the British city of Brighton and Hove. Conceived by speculative developer Joshua Hanson as Brighton underwent its rapid transformation into a fashionable resort, the three-sided "set piece" of 69 houses and associated structures was built between 1818 and 1832. Most of the houses overlooking the central garden were complete by 1824. The site was previously known, briefly and unofficially, as Belle Vue Field.

Wikipedia: Regency Square, Brighton (EN)

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