User:Hassocks5489/Contributions
These are the articles/lists I have created from scratch. (Expansions or rewrites of existing articles are not recorded.) Some common themes emerge...
Note (mainly to me): a coloured background to the number means I have archived the URLs of all online references (or as many as possible) using the WebCite or Internet Archive services, which I urge all WP editors to use. I will not be archiving the following: National Heritage List for England entries which use the {{NHLE}} template; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entries which use the {{ODNB}} template; entries from The London Gazette which use the {{London Gazette}} template; or entries from the online version of the Victoria County History of Sussex or other counties.
Second note: Featured lists that have appeared on the Main Page in the "Today's featured list" slot are denoted by a background colour all the way across the row.
# | Name | Date | Status | DYK? | Who? What? Where? When? Why? |
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1 | National Location Code | 28 June 2006 | My first article was as dry as they get: technical railway jargon. | ||
2 | Ifield railway station | 29 June 2006 | Even in 2006, a few British station articles were missing ... I put together a quick article on this one in Crawley; a prelude to lots of Crawley-related activity later. | ||
3 | Shere SMART | 13 July 2006 | The first of a few articles about railway ticket issuing systems (one of my main interests), for which I also designed an infobox and template. Scary! | ||
4 | APTIS ticket features | 26 July 2006 | I didn't think this "guide" fitted in the main APTIS article (Britain's main ticket issuing system for 20 years), hence this separate article. I wouldn't write anything like this now. | ||
5 | Station group (railway) | 31 July 2006 | More complexity and rail jargon with a ticket slant. Used to have lots of images before they were deleted. Not much potential for expansion. | ||
6 | Network Railcard | 17 August 2006 | One of various discount schemes for rail travel in Britain. I'm quite pleased with the sourcing I found for this. | ||
7 | Concessionary fares on the British railway network | 19 September 2006 | Hefty, all-encompassing article covering all sorts of rail discounts—in an encyclopaedic, non-advertising way of course :) | ||
8 | Seven Dials, Brighton | 19 November 2006 | My Brighton and Hove obsession starts with a quick piece on a notable suburban area, augmented by some photos on a nice winter day. | ||
9 | Patcham | 19 November 2006 | Another area of Brighton, but with much more history than Seven Dials; this could benefit from expansion and pictures. | ||
10 | Ascom EasyTicket | 27 November 2006 | A ticket machine which has now been phased out in Britain after a few years of trying to establish itself in the competitive market place. | ||
11 | AJENTS | 4 December 2006 | Weird type of rail ticket which needs certain other articles to be written to give it context. Must remember to do that... | ||
12 | Ascom B8050 Quickfare | 5 December 2006 | The main type of self-service ticket machine used on Britain's rail network for about 15 years. Now extinct; good job I got some pics. There is one (from Reading) in the basement of the National Railway Museum though! | ||
13 | Shere FASTticket | 14 December 2006 | One of the two main replacements for the Ascom B8050 Quickfare, used by several Train Operating Companies. | ||
14 | Scheidt & Bachmann Ticket XPress | 21 December 2006 | Shere FASTticket's main competitor. This article needs work; there are squillions of these machines now (including 32 at London Waterloo, improbably). December 2013 update: that work has been undertaken! | ||
15 | Ditchling Beacon | 27 December 2006 | A complete change of direction to write about an important hill (actually a Marilyn) a good 2 hours' walk from my house. | ||
16 | New England Quarter | 13 February 2007 | My first proper "big" article, about a newly developed area of Brighton. Briefly a GA before being delisted; now a GA again. Unusually for one of my articles, almost all references are online, because it's such a new area and no books have been published about it. | ||
17 | St Bartholomew's Church, Brighton | 1 March 2007 | This gargantuan church has been called "internationally important", and you can tell why when you stand anywhere near it. Article needs some titivation. | ||
18 | St Paul's Church, Brighton | 25 March 2007 | The second Brighton and Hove church article I started is on a well-known early 19th-century building which stands firm amid the encroachment of car parks, nightclubs and bars on a main street in central Brighton. | ||
19 | St Nicholas' Church, Brighton | 29 March 2007 | The old parish church was the only building not to be destroyed in a 16th-century French raid, mainly because it was way up on the cliffs behind the village (as was). | ||
20 | St Martin's Church, Brighton | 3 April 2007 | Simon Jenkins likes the "Cathedral of the Back Streets", which stands out among the brightly painted and stuccoed houses of the Clifton Hill area. | ||
21 | St Michael's Church, Brighton | 17 April 2007 | Big landmark church on one of the main roads into the city. | ||
22 | 16–25 Railcard | 12 June 2007 | Created to bypass a redirect. I'm too old for this Railcard now ... boo. | ||
23 | Senior Railcard | 9 July 2007 | An extremely popular discount card for older rail travellers. Quite a complex history. | ||
24 | Family and Friends Railcard | 23 July 2007 | The fourth of the major Railcard schemes. Loads of changes of price and conditions over the years, which I think I've summarised suitably. | ||
25 | St John the Baptist's Church, Hove | 3 December 2007 | Back into church "action" after quite a while spent in other areas of Wikipedia. Goodhart-Rendel said some very nasty things about this typical 19th-century edifice. | ||
26 | Church of the Annunciation, Brighton | 4 December 2007 | This is the most awkward church to photograph ever. Except the one in Moulsecoomb, maybe. | ||
27 | St Barnabas Church, Hove | 4 December 2007 | Ordinary sort of church near Hove station; its architect was underwhelmed by it. Perhaps slightly surprising that it has a Grade II* listing. | ||
28 | All Saints Church, Hove | 5 December 2007 | I had to avoid the wedding guests when photographing Hove's impressive parish church. | ||
29 | St George's Church, Brighton | 15 January 2008 | One of my favourite photos, and an interesting church to write about. | ||
30 | St Andrew's Church, Church Road, Hove | 5 February 2008 | What is its connection to Mount Everest...? It's quite surprising... | ||
31 | St Leonard's Church, Aldrington | 15 February 2008 | Thanks to Victuallers for finding a decent DYK hook about this unpromising church! | ||
32 | St John the Baptist's Church, Brighton | 27 April 2008 | A very early Roman Catholic church (Brighton's first, actually), and an unusual design for the denomination. A bit hemmed in by buildings and roads, sadly. | ||
33 | St Patrick's Church, Hove | 17 May 2008 | An important building in the city of Brighton and Hove, given its secondary function as a homeless shelter. | ||
34 | All Saints Church, Patcham | 18 May 2008 | One of many ancient village churches heavily restored by Victorian meddlers. | ||
35 | Bishop Hannington Memorial Church | 23 May 2008 | Pevsner liked this unusual modern church, which is a mixed blessing. | ||
36 | St Mary and St Abraam Coptic Orthodox Church, Hove | 8 June 2008 | Interesting tale of a redundant Anglican church bought by a different religious community. | ||
37 | St Margaret's Church, Rottingdean | 20 June 2008 | Classy village church with connections to lots of famous people. | ||
38 | French Protestant Church, Brighton | 27 June 2008 | A real curiosity: there's only one other in Britain. Dominated by surrounding buildings, sadly. | ||
39 | St Helen's Church, Hangleton | 22 July 2008 | An unexpected sight in the middle of a 1950s housing estate: an unrestored medieval church. | ||
40 | Chapel Royal, Brighton | 8 August 2008 | Elegant building right in the centre of Brighton, no longer a parish church but still in Anglican ownership and use. Comes with a good Prince Regent anecdote. | ||
41 | Stanmer Church | 30 August 2008 | Right on the edge of the city, in a huge park that was a private estate until quite recently, this interesting church has never had a dedication. | ||
42 | St Wulfran's Church, Ovingdean | 4 September 2008 | One of the ancient churches taken into Brighton territory by major boundary changes in the 1920s. The village still feels like it's in the middle of the Sussex countryside. | ||
43 | St Andrew's Church, Waterloo Street, Hove | 16 September 2008 | Fashionable, high-quality church which was thankfully preserved after its closure in 1990. Enough source material to expand this significantly, if I get a chance. | ||
44 | St Andrew's Church, Hove | 16 September 2008 | Two churches with the same name in the same place? Better create my first disambiguation page. | ||
45 | St Peter's Church, West Blatchington | 27 September 2008 | A funny sort of church with parts built in three completely different eras; nevertheless they fit well together. | ||
46 | St Nicolas Church, Portslade | 23 October 2008 | Good, solid medieval church which looks a lot like its contemporary at nearby Hangleton. | ||
47 | Listed buildings in Crawley | 18 November 2008 | Biggish, unfinished list of the Borough of Crawley's listed buildings (and the odd table tomb, mounting block, garden wall etc). Several more visits with the camera needed. A top priority for completion. | ||
48 | Beehive (Gatwick Airport) | 18 November 2008 | Incredibly important building in international aviation history; the design was inspired by a withering remark by the designer's father. | ||
49 | St John the Baptist's Church, Crawley | 24 November 2008 | Incoveniently hidden away between buildings, Crawley's parish church is quite interesting and has some mysterious carved faces on one wall. | ||
50 | St Margaret's Church, Ifield | 3 December 2008 | The only Talk page to contain the phrase "What the heck is an inimitable sideways sway?", I imagine. Not the prettiest Grade I listed building ever. | ||
51 | Ifield Friends Meeting House | 12 December 2008 | One of the oldest in the world; a simple, effective design, similar to many Nonconformist places of worship. | ||
52 | Tree House, Crawley | 15 December 2008 | Nice ex-council building, now falling into dereliction; surprisingly used to be Crawley's manor house many centuries ago. | ||
53 | St Michael and All Angels Church, Lowfield Heath | 31 December 2008 | Why is there a pleasant yellow-brick church standing in the middle of a load of warehouses and nondescript parking areas right next to Gatwick Airport's runway?... | ||
54 | Lowfield Heath | 31 December 2008 | ...Because the village which surrounded it until the 1950s was cleared to make way for airport expansion. | ||
55 | St Luke's Church, Queen's Park, Brighton | 18 January 2009 | Back down to Brighton for a quick summary of a good-looking church with not a lot to say about it. | ||
56 | Old Punch Bowl | 26 January 2009 | In contrast, this Crawley pub has seen more change over the centuries than most buildings. I've exhausted the source material; not much gets written about Crawley. | ||
57 | Ifield Water Mill | 2 February 2009 | I wrote this article when I was snowed in under the heaviest snowfalls Sussex had seen for 18 years. I couldn't actually leave my house! | ||
58 | List of places of worship in Crawley | 14 February 2009 | With this manageably-sized list, I developed the model for similar lists I've done and will do in the future for other areas. This required plenty of research and a lot of walking around the neighbourhoods. Fun! | ||
59 | Church of the Transfiguration, Pyecombe | 17 February 2009 | The photo was taken on a New Year's Day post-party hangover-busting country walk. I knew I would write the article at some point. Happily, plenty of research material was available. | ||
60 | Tapsel gate | 17 February 2009 | This quirky article, featured in the DYK pictured slot, generated much comment; I'm glad others were intrigued as I was about these cleverly designed contraptions, unique to Sussex. | ||
61 | Crawley Hospital | 20 February 2009 | Dull but worthy article. Wikipedia's coverage of British hospitals is weak; it would be worth looking into. | ||
62 | Brighton Friends Meeting House | 7 March 2009 | The first of several expansions of material excised from the main List of places of worship in Brighton and Hove when it went from prose to list form. | ||
63 | Brighton Unitarian Church | 8 March 2009 | Striking building built by Amon Henry Wilds (q.v.). The sources indicate that the Prince Regent features prominently in the story, as usual! | ||
64 | Dorset Gardens Methodist Church | 8 March 2009 | I wondered whether to write this: the present building isn't listed and has no remarkable qualities, but the long history of older churches on the site justified a short article. | ||
65 | Pepper Pot, Brighton | 8 March 2009 | Typical Brighton eccentricity: a bizarre building surrounded by 19th-century houses. Nobody ever seems to know what to do with it; the council turned it into a public toilet for a while, for example. | ||
66 | Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity, Brighton | 8 March 2009 | Most of this article concentrates on the building's history as an Anglican church; sources on its present use are thin on the ground. | ||
67 | Holy Trinity Church, Brighton | 14 March 2009 | Important early 19th-century chapel; nothing to do with the Prince Regent for once. I'm pleased with the photo; the height of the tower and the crowded nature of Ship Street cause difficulties. | ||
68 | Middle Street Synagogue, Brighton | 14 March 2009 | I was lucky to get the picture when I did; it's covered in scaffolding now! There seems to be confusion over whether it is truly closed or not; more research needed here. | ||
69 | St Philip's Church, Hove | 16 March 2009 | Unexciting church on the way out to Portslade; still, it's notable, and the exterior is quite pleasant. | ||
70 | Holy Trinity Church, Hove | 22 March 2009 | Its future is uncertain, so I need to keep the article updated. Well-sited, but congregations have declined. | ||
71 | Chattri (Brighton) | 23 March 2009 | An unusual, well-designed war memorial high on the South Downs overlooking Brighton. I knew the story behind it, but the research was still enjoyable. | ||
72 | St Mary the Virgin, Brighton | 31 March 2009 | Vast, closure-threatened church; its predecessor (which suddenly collapsed one day!) was equally interesting. | ||
73 | Ramsgate Harbour railway station | 3 April 2009 | I spotted this redlink in a FAC when lurking there, and couldn't resist turning it blue. | ||
74 | Ramsgate Town railway station | 3 April 2009 | As with Ramsgate Harbour railway station, my railway book collection came in useful. | ||
75 | St John the Evangelist's Church, Preston Village, Brighton | 4 April 2009 | This was the first photo I ever took for the specific purpose of uploading to Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons. I took more than 2 years to get around to the article! | ||
76 | St Peter's Church, Preston Village, Brighton | 4 April 2009 | Written in conjunction with St John the Evangelist's, since their histories are intertwined. | ||
77 | Grade I listed buildings in Brighton and Hove | 11 April 2009 | Most of the photos were taken on a particularly sunny and warm Easter Monday. I need to work on the Kemp Town and Brunswick (Hove) articles before I can complete this. | ||
78 | List of places of worship in Mid Sussex | 16 April 2009 | Another church list, for my home district this time. More awkward than Crawley or B&H; a lot of the churches are way out in the countryside! | ||
79 | St Wilfrid's Church, Brighton | 19 April 2009 | Given that this 1930s church was closed because dangerous asbestos was found, I'm not sure how it was able to be converted into a sheltered housing complex fairly soon afterwards! | ||
80 | St Joseph's Church, Brighton | 25 April 2009 | Landmark Roman Catholic church, distinctive for its Kentish Ragstone exterior, at the bottom of the long, steep Elm Grove. | ||
81 | St Peter's Church, Aldrington | 26 April 2009 | Its main point of interest is the huge campanile, which dominates the surrounding area. | ||
82 | St Mary Magdalen's Church, Brighton | 29 April 2009 | Another quick expansion of some existing material from the main church list. | ||
83 | Hove Methodist Church | 30 April 2009 | Likewise, although more thorough research yielded some useful info. | ||
84 | Holland Road Baptist Church | 4 May 2009 | The church website had some useful historical info that was surprisingly absent from my book sources. Judicious use of both has created a suitably well-rounded history section, I hope. | ||
85 | Westdene | 7 May 2009 | Filled in an annoying redlink by scribbling a few paragraphs about this pleasant, bland Brighton suburb. | ||
86 | Church of the Good Shepherd, Brighton | 7 May 2009 | Enough coverage in third-party sources to justify an article, although not as much as I expected for a listed building. | ||
87 | St Stephen's Church, Brighton | 19 May 2009 | Another ex-church with a fascinating history (not least the bit where they moved it a mile across town!). This is one of those buildings where every photo you see will be taken from exactly the same angle. | ||
88 | Amon Henry Wilds | 22 May 2009 | Significant Brighton-based architect. Bio articles are not my strength—I barely edit them, let alone create them—so this was nerve-wracking. Plenty of scope for expansion. | ||
89 | Amon Wilds | 22 May 2009 | The father of the above, also an architect, has slightly less to write about. So many sources get Amon and Amon Henry mixed up, misattribute their works or just mention "Wilds"; these two were difficult to write and could contain inaccuracies. | ||
90 | Church of the Sacred Heart, Hove | 23 May 2009 | Straightforward expansion of previously written material once a couple more sources had been gathered. | ||
91 | St Augustine's Church, Brighton | 4 June 2009 | A closed church where not much ever happened; only justifies an article because of its listed status. | ||
92 | Union Chapel, Brighton | 5 June 2009 | Ancient building, now a well-known pub. There's loads of material out there about its pre-pub history. Terribly difficult to photograph. | ||
93 | Bristol Road Methodist Church | 7 June 2009 | Inconspicuous church near the Dorset Gardens Methodist Church; closed a few years ago, and gained listed status afterwards. | ||
94 | St Mark's Church, Brighton | 7 June 2009 | An oddly similar history to the Bristol Road church: built in the 19th century, served for over 100 years, closed, and now owned by a school. Those naughty rascals Pevsner and Goodhart-Rendel said some eyebrow-raising things about the architecture. | ||
95 | St Wilfrid's Church, Haywards Heath | 17 June 2009 | Haywards Heath's parish church. Had to write quite a bit of background about the town to put the church in context. | ||
96 | St Peter's Church, Ardingly | 18 June 2009 | As with many parish churches in Sussex, this pleasant stone church has lots of good-quality source material. Some scope for expansion. | ||
97 | St Richard's Church, Haywards Heath | 1 July 2009 | Quick, do this article before the library books are due back! Phew – just made it. One of Haywards Heath's two listed churches; a desire for "economy" led to some unusual design choices. Too wide to photograph properly. | ||
98 | St John the Evangelist's Church, Burgess Hill | 2 July 2009 | The town isn't noted for its stunning landscape or thrilling design (as its nickname, Bugs Hole, suggests), but the parish church is its main landmark, attractively placed at the end of the main shopping street. | ||
99 | List of places of worship in Adur | 9 July 2009 | Small, manageable district; on the way to my office; most churches are accessible by public transport; lots of source material available: a quick and satisfying list to compile. | ||
100 | Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin, Sompting | 12 July 2009 | Very old parish church with a famous Germanic spire—the only one in England. Some exciting associations with the Knights Templar. Although it's several miles away across the fields, I can see it clearly from the video-conference room in my office. | ||
101 | St Julian's Church, Kingston Buci | 16 July 2009 | Paul "101 Medieval Churches of West Sussex" Coppin accurately describes "the modern world crowding in on" this feature-laden 11th-century church—home to an intriguing anchorite's cell (photogenic, but it's a good job the churchyard grass wasn't wet at the time...). | ||
102 | St Michael and All Angels Church, Southwick | 21 July 2009 | Just a pleasant stroll from the church above, this one is similarly ancient but in a less obvious way. Nice tower and lychgate. | ||
103 | St Mary de Haura Church, Shoreham-by-Sea | 2 August 2009 | Huge church associated with the medievally important south-coast harbour at Shoreham. Has had all sorts of praise and superlatives directed at it. | ||
104 | St Nicolas' Church, Shoreham-by-Sea | 4 August 2009 | The oldest bit of Shoreham(-by-Sea) is, er, not by the sea—it's inland, surrounding its church. Wacky carvings of moody-looking kings, cats etc. are found in the Norman interior. | ||
105 | Erringham chapel | 5 August 2009 | Crawley has a barn that is now a church, but here is a church that is now a barn. The never-very-big village of Old Erringham disappeared in medieval times, but bits of its chapel survive and are listed. | ||
106 | List of places of worship in Lewes District | 12 August 2009 | Another church list – surprise! A carefully compiled multi-coloured Excel spreadsheet full of research helped me compile this pretty quickly once I actually started. | ||
107 | Lewes Free Presbyterian Church | 16 August 2009 | The majority of Lewes district's churches are listed and therefore "need" articles. Here's the first, about a 200-year-old Nonconformist chapel with an unexpected present-day congregation. | ||
108 | Coombes Church | 20 September 2009 | Adur's only genuinely rural church is "folded into the South Downs" and has celebrated wall paintings, including a funny one (sounds familiar from nearby St Nicolas'!). | ||
109 | St Peter's Church, Shoreham-by-Sea | 21 September 2009 | The town's Roman Catholic church was closed in 1982 and quickly listed at Grade II—hence this article. Brief mention also made of the new church with the same dedication. | ||
110 | List of places of worship in Worthing | 27 September 2009 | The latest in the panoply of Sussex church lists. The borough has a very similar population to Crawley but many more religious buildings, reflecting its longer history I suppose. | ||
111 | St James the Less Church, Lancing | 2 October 2009 | One of the only ancient buildings in the small town of Lancing (or is it a large village?). Close to the Downs, like nearby Coombes Church. | ||
112 | St Andrew's Church, West Tarring | 9 October 2009 | Tall-spired, rather pleasant church in a very old part of Worthing, right next to some tennis courts (!?). One of only eight Grade II* buildings in the borough. | ||
113 | Ancient Priors | 14 October 2009 | Back up to Crawley (I couldn't keep away) to write about a very old building with some very interesting tales. A plethora of available sources include a recent in-depth historical and archaeological investigation. | ||
114 | Devil's door | 16 October 2009 | Quick little article about a feature of some ancient church buildings, written for the DYK Hallowe'en selection. These doors are strangely common in Sussex... | ||
115 | St Mary's Church, Walberton | 18 October 2009 | Another one for the DYK Hallowe'en selection: a West Sussex church with a very morbid tombstone (with a pic). | ||
116 | White Hart Inn, Crawley | 4 November 2009 | Another of Crawley's old, listed coaching inns, built as a direct replacement for the Ancient Priors (q.v.). | ||
117 | Transport in Worthing | 10 November 2009 | For some mad reason, I have decided to try to knock Worthing into shape (the article, not the town). This means maintaining summary style by creating lots of subsidiary articles. This is the first... | ||
118 | Listed buildings in Worthing | 15 November 2009 | An enormous list (partly because of all the references) of every listed building in the borough: lamp-posts, pubs, war memorials and the rest of it. Appears on Special:Longpages, worryingly. | ||
119 | Public services in Worthing | 19 November 2009 | Again, I expanded a section in the Worthing article enough to justify a separate subarticle. This covers stuff from police to drainage. | ||
120 | List of royal visits to Worthing | 26 November 2009 | Worthing enjoyed a lot of royal patronage in its early days. Decent sources are available for this topic, surprisingly, so I have had a go at it. | ||
121 | St George's Church, Worthing | 30 November 2009 | Pleasant mid-Victorian brick church in the east of the town. I can see the roof (and spirelet) from my desk at work. | ||
122 | Worthing Tabernacle | 7 December 2009 | An Evangelical chapel housed in an impressive listed building. The strange-shaped shadow on the picture is the cupola of the town hall. | ||
123 | St Mary's Church, Goring-by-Sea | 8 December 2009 | This church, surprisingly difficult to photograph, is equally surprisingly listed at Grade II*, given its dull exterior appearance (or "disappointingly limp", as Nairn and Pevsner moaned). | ||
124 | Fountain Inn, Ashurst | 14 December 2009 | A listed building just "down the road", with a Christmas connection which made it a good candidate for a festive DYK nomination. | ||
125 | Beach House Park, Worthing | 18 December 2009 | Small, ornamental garden in Worthing with two unusual features: it's "the home of bowls" and the site of a (unique?) war pigeon memorial. | ||
126 | Maritime history of Worthing | 21 December 2009 | Wide-ranging article covering various topics relating to Worthing and the sea (including the smelly seaweed). | ||
127 | Listed buildings in Adur | 3 January 2010 | Nowhere near as many buildings to photograph, write about etc. as in Worthing, but still quite a few (119, in fact). I photographed about 30 on an unusually sunny New Years Day. | ||
128 | St Andrew's Church, Worthing | 5 January 2010 | Unrelated to the church of the same dedication in nearby West Tarring, this one was the subject of much controversy and teeth-gnashing when it opened. | ||
129 | St Botolph's Church, Heene | 6 January 2010 | The "somewhat scanty" (!) remains of the old church stand next to its Victorian replacement in this residential area of Worthing. Both are listed. | ||
130 | Vintners Parrot | 9 January 2010 | A pub notable for | ||
131 | St Symphorian's Church, Durrington | 9 January 2010 | Another Worthing-area church which, like others, experienced decline then rapid revitalisation. I need a better pic though... | ||
132 | Tinsley Green, West Sussex | 12 January 2010 | A rather interesting area on the outskirts of Crawley. Will they build the fabled "14th neighbourhood" there?... Twelve years after the first planning application, we still don't know... (April 2010 update: we now know they won't...) (2015 update: oh yes they will!) | ||
133 | Brewery Shades | 21 January 2010 | Yet another timber-framed open hall house in Crawley, although you can't tell from the outside. Is the toilet still haunted...? | ||
134 | Broadfield House, Crawley | 25 January 2010 | This attractive villa has housed everything from the New Town Development Corporation to Mercury FM's studios (who remembers Steve Hyland on the Breakfast Show...?). | ||
135 | Grade II* listed buildings in Brighton and Hove | 31 January 2010 | Back down to Brighton (and Hove, "actually"...) for some listed buildings action, after I finally got most of the remaining photos. | ||
136 | Royal Albion Hotel | 4 February 2010 | Here's an article for one of them: a well-known landmark hotel on the seafront, fully recovered from its 1998 mishap. | ||
137 | Royal Crescent, Brighton | 7 February 2010 | Here's another: not as famous as Bath's version, but with several interesting/morbid facts. | ||
138 | Mathematical tile | 7 February 2010 | Royal Crescent is built with these, as are several other buildings in Brighton, Lewes and elsewhere (including 44 Old Steine, Brighton, where the close-up pic was taken). | ||
139 | 9 Pool Valley, Brighton | 8 February 2010 | Grade II* and mathematical-tiled: "Ye Olde Bunn Shoppe" (to give it its former name) was a predictable choice for my next article... | ||
140 | Patcham Place | 8 February 2010 | ...as was this ex-Youth Hostel, which also has Grade II* status and mathematical tiles in common. Shame it's currently empty. | ||
141 | Friary Church of St Francis and St Anthony, Crawley | 27 February 2010 | Crawley's first Roman Catholic church was rebuilt by Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel ... remember him from earlier?! It was listed less than 50 years later—a rare feat. | ||
142 | West Street Baptist Church, East Grinstead | 2 March 2010 | More sources than expected for this modest, Grade II-listed chapel, so I wrote more than I anticipated. Its bicentenary is later this year. | ||
143 | Red Lion Inn, Shoreham-by-Sea | 10 March 2010 | Fairly old listed pub in the old bit of Shoreham. I had a very nice lunch (and pint) there while out photographing the town's listed buildings, thanks for asking. | ||
144 | Holy Trinity Church, Cuckfield | 21 March 2010 | From long, low pubs to long, low churches, and a huge article which could be expanded still further if I get a chance to write about the extensive collection of monuments and memorials inside. | ||
145 | St Mary's Church, Slaugham | 25 March 2010 | Another old church in the middle of the Sussex Weald, supplemented by some nice images from Geograph (my flying visit to Slaugham was only long enough to allow a couple of exterior shots). | ||
146 | List of places of worship in Eastbourne | 29 March 2010 | List #7 in the series of places of worship in Sussex by district takes in the only small, straightforward one left. | ||
147 | Hangleton Manor Inn | 18 April 2010 | Another old Sussex pub with alleged hauntings ... this time involving pigeons, superbly. The ancient manor house has only been an inn for a few decades, in fact. | ||
148 | Providence Strict Baptist Chapel, Burgess Hill | 20 April 2010 | I suddenly decided to write about... | ||
149 | Zion Chapel, Newick | 20 April 2010 | ...a load of former Baptist chapels in Sussex... | ||
150 | Ebenezer Particular Baptist Chapel, Hastings | 20 April 2010 | ...all of which are Grade II listed... | ||
151 | Rehoboth Chapel, Pell Green | 21 April 2010 | ...and many of which are in tiny, obscure places... | ||
152 | Shover's Green Baptist Chapel | 21 April 2010 | ...which means raiding Geograph's archive for photos... | ||
153 | Providence Chapel, Hadlow Down | 21 April 2010 | ...where the alternative is walking 4 miles down an A-road from the nearest station... | ||
154 | Rye Particular Baptist Chapel | 22 April 2010 | ...or taking a really long train journey... | ||
155 | Southover General Baptist Chapel | 22 April 2010 | ...but this one was easy enough to photograph, albeit standing in the middle of a road. | ||
156 | List of places of worship in Hastings | 7 May 2010 | Yet more photography for this one: 69 buildings taken in just two visits, both in very sunny weather. In April! | ||
157 | Christ Church, Ore | 8 May 2010 | The second individual church article for that borough (after Ebenezer, written during the Baptist Chapel Marathon®) includes some more daftness from Pevsner. | ||
158 | Holy Trinity Church, Hastings | 9 May 2010 | Probably the best church in Hastings, architecturally, and one of the most difficult to photograph. | ||
159 | Hastings Fishermen's Museum | 9 May 2010 | That's its current name, but this modest sandstone building on the beach was a chapel for nearly a century. | ||
160 | Church in the Wood, Hollington | 10 May 2010 | I got horribly lost in said Wood trying to find this church, so it is appropriately named. | ||
161 | Northern Glass Cone, Alloa Glass Works | 16 May 2010 | A surprising deviation to central Scotland for a listed building; the article was written in conjunction with a DYK nomination. | ||
162 | St Leonards-on-Sea Congregational Church | 29 May 2010 | A rather nice "landmark" church in that part of Hastings, now closed and suffering structural deterioration unfortunately. | ||
163 | St Luke's Church, Silverhill | 31 May 2010 | Not a listed building, although it probably could be. This United Reformed Church suffered the same fate as its near-neighbour during the Great Storm of 1987: the spires blew off both churches. | ||
164 | St Matthew's Church, Silverhill | 1 June 2010 | Big, pleasant church on a sloping site (typical of Hastings); the design is so similar to St Barnabas Church, Hove that it won't be a surprise to find that the same man did both. | ||
165 | Clock Tower, Brighton | 2 June 2010 | One of the most famous landmarks in the city, especially if you're giving people directions—but it's the curious architecture we're interested in here. | ||
166 | Wykeham Terrace, Brighton | 14 June 2010 | One of Brighton's many early 19th-century high-class residential developments, but somewhat out of leftfield architecturally. | ||
167 | French Convalescent Home, Brighton | 14 June 2010 | The city is full of surprises, and here's another: a French Government-sponsored rest home on the seafront, which only closed down in 2000. It's now pricey luxury flats. | ||
168 | Western Pavilion | 15 June 2010 | Yet another eccentric building in Sussex's most architecturally outrageous place (no, not Crawley...); this one was Amon Henry Wilds's own house. | ||
169 | Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove: A–B | 16 June 2010 | There are far too many Grade II buildings in the city to cram into one list (think of the references section...!), so after much thought I have split it into 10 lists by building name. Here's the first ... now can I photograph them all?! | ||
170 | 11 Dyke Road, Brighton | 17 June 2010 | Another of the city's strange, characterful buildings ... this used to be a school, but in its 40-odd year career as a nightclub it has had at least seven names. Hmm... | ||
171 | Park Crescent, Brighton | 20 June 2010 | Important large-scale development by that man Amon Henry Wilds again, on the site of a bizarre "pleasure garden". | ||
172 | Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove: C–D | 21 June 2010 | The second part of the byte-gobbling list includes such delights as cemetery chapels, drinking fountains and a couple of dovecots. | ||
173 | Steine House | 26 June 2010 | More Prince Regent-related hilarity in this building opposite his Royal Pavilion; it was his illegal wife's house. | ||
174 | List of demolished places of worship in Brighton and Hove | 22 July 2010 | A combination of sources, including one book specifically on this subject, helped me research this quite quickly. Many churches were lost in the 1960s, predictably. | ||
175 | Regency Square, Brighton | 29 July 2010 | Excellent architectural set-piece on the seafront, which improbably hides a 500-space multi-storey car park under its central garden. That bit certainly wasn't built by Amon Henry Wilds... | ||
176 | Bungaroosh | 2 August 2010 | Crazy alleged "building material" ("fragile" and "low-quality" are understatements) encountered frequently in that most eccentric of places, Brighton. Brilliant name as well. | ||
177 | Brighton Forum | 2 August 2010 | A nice Gothic building (unusual for Brighton) with three varied uses over the years. | ||
178 | Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove: E–H | 8 August 2010 | And there's more ... several churches, a couple of banks and suchlike are included in this list. | ||
179 | Van Alen Building | 12 August 2010 | Classy piece of modern architecture on the seafront of ... guess the city. This is what they call "high-end real estate" (i.e. pricey flats). | ||
180 | Freemasons Tavern, Hove | 12 August 2010 | This splendidly decorated pub along Western Road has an eye-catching lavatory installation (!?), but wouldn't you rather look at the intricate mosaic exterior? | ||
181 | Pelham Institute | 11 September 2010 | An article was started on prolific local architect Thomas Lainson, prompting me to write about some of his Brighton and Hove buildings—such as this working men's club in the middle of Kemptown... | ||
182 | 75 Holland Road, Hove | 11 September 2010 | ...and this former furniture repository near the Baptist church. Both of these stylish buildings have been converted into flats. | ||
183 | Barford Court, Hove | 24 September 2010 | Yet another of the many quirkily intriguing buildings in the city: a futuristic (for the 1930s), high-spec home-for-a-millionaire, who only lived in it for a few years. Uses since then have been healthcare-related. | ||
184 | List of conservation areas in Brighton and Hove | 27 September 2010 | Unsurprisingly, 34 such areas have been designated in the city, from the modest and extremely urban to the expansive and mostly rural. | ||
185 | Carlton Hill, Brighton | 1 October 2010 | This is one of those areas found in every city, where you say its name and people look at you blankly, but when you name some of its landmarks they say "oh, there". NB. This observation is original research. | ||
186 | Preston Manor, Brighton | 3 October 2010 | A very important, ancient manor house on the outskirts of Brighton. Now a museum, it is home to numerous ghosts, it is said... including a disembodied hand. Ooh! | ||
187 | All Saints Church, Buncton | 14 October 2010 | Delightful rural chapel down the road, featuring the remarkable story of a bizarre (and rather rude) carving and how it met its fate. | ||
188 | All Saints Church, Highbrook | 23 October 2010 | Quick article on a large, attractive church in a Mid Sussex hamlet which is very small indeed. (And surrounded by muddy fields.) | ||
189 | Amex House | 23 October 2010 | The European headquarters of American Express is a wedding cake-resembling edifice in Carlton Hill (q.v.). Unsurprisingly, it is nicknamed "The Wedding Cake". | ||
190 | British Engineerium | 24 October 2010 | This much-loved Hove landmark and important industrial museum has been closed for years, but should reopen eventually. Good job I was around for the rare open day... | ||
191 | List of places of worship in Wealden | 29 October 2010 | Another Sussex district, and another vast list of its churches and chapels. More than 60 have listed status, impressively. February 2012 update: split for size reasons. See below! | ||
192 | St Mark's Church, Hadlow Down | 13 November 2010 | This is one of those 60-plus referred to above. Built to plug the huge gap in Anglican church provision between Buxted and Mayfield, it had to be rebuilt after spire-related problems. | ||
193 | Central Methodist Church, Eastbourne | 21 November 2010 | A couple of in-depth library books helped me describe the story of the town's largest and most important Methodist church. It's certainly the tallest as well. | ||
194 | Brighton Hippodrome | 1 December 2010 | One of the Grade II*-listed buildings in B&H I had been planning to write about for ages. So many notable people appeared here that one paragraph looks like a wall of blue. | ||
195 | All Saints Church, Roffey | 20 December 2010 | The Victorian parish church of this Horsham suburb comes with an odd anecdote about a dead swan, of all things. | ||
196 | St John the Baptist's Church, Clayton | 23 December 2010 | Time to write about my local Saxon church, finally. The distinctive wall murals have been very well preserved. | ||
197 | Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Warminghurst | 30 December 2010 | Writing about this now closed church benefits three lists: Grade I's in West Sussex, CCT churches in the South East, and Horsham district's churches (which I'm about to start!). | ||
198 | St Mary the Virgin's Church, North Stoke | 30 December 2010 | Here's another in deepest Sussex, on what I call the far side of Horsham district ... again it appears/will appear on all three of those lists. | ||
199 | Round Hill, Brighton | 2 January 2011 | A populous, interesting suburb of Brighton which unaccountably had no article! Time to change that... | ||
200 | Roundhill Crescent | 4 January 2011 | ...and it also felt appropriate to give more detail on its architectural centrepiece, which has a place in English medical history. | ||
201 | Jarvis Hall, Steyning | 17 February 2011 | I've been concentrating on researching/writing a huge piece in "real life" recently, so WP articles have been on hold. I found a useful book in Worthing reference library though... | ||
202 | Steyning Methodist Church | 17 February 2011 | ...which powered these two little articles about the former and present places of Methodist worship in this ancient Sussex village (or small town, arguably). | ||
203 | List of places of worship in Horsham (district) | 20 March 2011 | I finally had some time to put together this lengthy list of churches and a mosque in this large, mostly rural area of West Sussex. | ||
204 | Madina Mosque, Horsham | 25 March 2011 | Built in 1857 for Strict Baptists, this neat little building became Horsham's first mosque in its 152nd year of existence. | ||
205 | Cemeteries and crematoria in Brighton and Hove | 25 March 2011 | Lengthy article about the fascinating history of the city's cems, crems and churchyards, with odd tales and lots of atmospheric photos. | ||
206 | St Mary Magdalene's Church, Tortington | 10 April 2011 | Fascinating ex-church in the flat countryside near Arundel, with fearful, bulging-eyed carvings staring down at you from the chancel arch. | ||
207 | St John the Evangelist's Church, Chichester | 29 April 2011 | One of many intriguing places of worship (well, now a former place of worship) in the small but church-filled city of Chichester (or "Chi" as we sometimes call it here in Sussex). | ||
208 | Billingshurst Unitarian Chapel | 1 May 2011 | One of the oldest of the many interesting, humble Nonconformist chapels in Sussex. | ||
209 | St Leonard's Baptist Church, St Leonards-on-Sea | 2 May 2011 | Exactly a year ago, I had a week where I frenziedly wrote about a series of churches in Hastings... | ||
210 | St Mary Magdalene's Church, St Leonards-on-Sea | 2 May 2011 | ...and by coincidence the same has happened during 2011. | ||
211 | Church of St Thomas of Canterbury and English Martyrs, St Leonards-on-Sea | 3 May 2011 | Ooh, this article has a long name. | ||
212 | St John the Evangelist's Church, St Leonards-on-Sea | 5 May 2011 | The thing is, St Leonards-on-Sea has so many high-quality, listed churches... | ||
213 | Christ Church, St Leonards-on-Sea | 6 May 2011 | ...they just have to be written about. | ||
214 | St Peter's Church, St Leonards-on-Sea | 7 May 2011 | Even this one, which didn't excite me at all when I visited to photograph it. It's Grade II*-listed, proving me wrong! | ||
215 | St Wilfrid's Chapel, Church Norton | 12 May 2011 | Another Sussex oddity: most of this building was moved about 2 miles to the centre of Selsey in the 1860s, leaving just the chancel—which was then rededicated as a chapel. Kipling used it in a poem, too. | ||
216 | List of places of worship in Arun | 22 May 2011 | The 11th district out of Sussex's 13 is done ... where shall I do next? Surrey? Kent? London?... | ||
217 | Littlehampton Friends Meeting House | 26 May 2011 | Formerly a school, and situated behind a rather tall wall. Luckily there was a similar wall on the other side of the street for me to stand on and photograph it. | ||
218 | Angmering Baptist Church | 26 May 2011 | This article covers the old and new churches of that description in the village of that name. | ||
219 | Trinity Congregational Church, Arundel | 26 May 2011 | A very elegant building in the town centre, although Ian Nairn moaned about it being "not good". Typical! It's now an indoor market. | ||
220 | Bailiffscourt Chapel | 26 May 2011 | Now used mainly for wedding blessings for people who get married at the adjacent luxury hotel, and indeed there were rose petals scattered around on the day of my visit. | ||
221 | Christ Church, Hastings | 31 May 2011 | To cause maximum confusion, the borough of Hastings has three churches of this name. Time for a disambiguation page... | ||
222 | Greatham Church | 26 June 2011 | A nice obscure church out in the fields near Amberley Wild Brooks. Enough material out there for a quick article. Surprisingly it's in Horsham district. | ||
223 | Horsham Unitarian Church | 4 July 2011 | Staying in that district, here's a small, homely chapel which has survived for nearly 300 years and inspired the founding of Billingshurst Unitarian Chapel (q.v.) | ||
224 | Robertsbridge United Reformed Church | 7 July 2011 | Thomas Elworthy, its architect, is "often maligned" (I quote)—and Nairn and Pevsner certainly didn't have any kind words to say about this chapel he provided in Robertsbridge in 1881. | ||
225 | Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove: M | 17 July 2011 | I avoided the L section for now (too many listed lamp-posts ... boring!) and skipped to the "M"s, which includes all the lovely stuccoed buildings on Marine Parade, inter alia. | ||
226 | Stag Inn, Hastings | 1 August 2011 | I dropped in here for a pint in the knowledge that there were two mummified cats hanging from the wall ... an interesting photo opportunity! It's an ancient listed building, needless to say. | ||
227 | List of places of worship in Rother | 12 August 2011 | I used Hastings as a base for a few days so that I could travel round Rother, the rural district which surrounds it, and photograph its array of churches ... which I then wrote about here. | ||
228 | List of demolished places of worship in East Sussex | 3 September 2011 | Following the example of the equivalent Brighton and Hove list (q.v.), here are details about the 60-odd churches and chapels which have vanished in the eastern part of Sussex. | ||
229 | List of demolished places of worship in West Sussex | 3 September 2011 | And I don't leave out West Sussex ... churches have disappeared from Crawley down to Chichester, and I have sought the details and the coordinates. | ||
230 | Bethel Strict Baptist Chapel, Robertsbridge | 10 September 2011 | An architectural contrast to the showiness of the other Nonconformist chapel on the village High Street, this recently closed chapel was founded by a very interesting character. | ||
231 | Cox & Barnard | 24 September 2011 | A slight departure from my usual themes, as I write about a stained glass designer? – Not really, because they are based in Hove and most of their work is in Sussex churches. | ||
232 | St Mary's Church, Hampden Park, Eastbourne | 25 September 2011 | A nice, undemonstrative 1950s church in suburban Eastbourne. Similarities with Bishop Hannington Memorial Church in Hove (q.v.) are inevitable: the architect is the same. He did the church in Saltdean too. | ||
233 | Bethel Strict Baptist Chapel, Wivelsfield | 3 October 2011 | Not "technically" started by me, but another user used some pre-prepared stuff from one of my sandboxes to start an article on this interesting chapel... | ||
234 | Ditchling Unitarian Chapel | 4 October 2011 | ...which was formed when various members seceded from this rather elegant (originally Baptist) chapel in the 18th century. | ||
235 | Jubilee Library, Brighton | 10 October 2011 | Back to Brighton for another of its exciting buildings; this is one of its most recent, but is already a landmark which has got various commentators and architectural historians all excited. | ||
236 | John Leopold Denman | 28 October 2011 | A very productive architect who spent all his life in Brighton and designed an awful lot of stylish buildings in the city. | ||
237 | Brighton Wheel | 29 October 2011 | The new tourist attraction that everyone is talking about in the city (and photographing, apparently). It entered service 5 days before I wrote this article. | ||
238 | 20–22 Marlborough Place, Brighton | 30 October 2011 | This is one of JLD's plethora of buildings: a good example of his characteristic Neo-Georgian style. Nice carvings as well. | ||
239 | Bilsham Chapel | 28 November 2011 | This has not been in religious use since the 16th century, but is still marked as a "Chapel" on maps (in that funny font they use for ancient sites, antiquities and suchlike). Now it's somebody's house. | ||
240 | Montpelier, Brighton | 29 November 2011 | One of Brighton's oldest and most important suburbs: easily significant enough to justify several thousand words and a series of photos of buildings and suchlike. | ||
241 | Hounsom Memorial Church | 24 December 2011 | By odd coincidence, this Denman-designed United Reformed church is a short walk from the city of Brighton and Hove's other "XXX Memorial Church". | ||
242 | Montpelier Crescent | 26 December 2011 | Quite a well-known crescent of houses in Brighton (one of many crescents there, of course) ... shame it's so difficult to photograph. | ||
243 | Vernon Terrace, Brighton | 26 December 2011 | Less familiar is the plainer (but still quite pleasant) set of houses opposite, which blocked the crescent's extensive views. Bet the early residents were delighted! | ||
244 | St Leonard's Church, St Leonards-on-Sea | 29 December 2011 | The parish church of this church-filled town is still in use, despite various mishaps over the years. | ||
245 | Clayton & Black | 30 December 2011 | As an extraordinarily prolific firm of architects who worked exclusively in Brighton and Hove, it was no surprise that I would get round to writing a hefty (and heavily illustrated) article. | ||
246 | Gwydyr Mansions | 1 January 2012 | Some of their more notable efforts also get treated to their own articles... | ||
247 | First Church of Christ, Scientist (Brighton) | 1 January 2012 | This was a C&B conversion rather than a new-build, but they did a good job; it used to be a house. | ||
248 | 163 North Street, Brighton | 1 January 2012 | General consensus states that this eye-catching city-centre office is their best building. I'm tempted to agree! | ||
249 | 155–158 North Street, Brighton | 2 January 2012 | This one isn't bad either, especially now it's been prettified again and reopened as a pub. | ||
250 | List of former places of worship in Wealden | 29 January 2012 | At its full size, the Wealden list was too long and unwieldy... | ||
251 | List of current places of worship in Wealden | 29 January 2012 | ...so I made the obvious split: "open" churches in one article, and disused ones in another. | ||
252 | King and Queen, Brighton | 4 February 2012 | An eccentrically distinctive Mock Tudor city-centre pub with a long and very interesting history–and another in the long list of Clayton & Black's local works. | ||
253 | St Mary Magdalene's Church, Bolney | 22 February 2012 | Nearly 3 years after taking the photos at this pleasant, large Mid Sussex church, I get round to writing a pretty in-depth article about it, using my wide range of Sussex-ish sources. | ||
254 | St Margaret's Church, West Hoathly | 25 February 2012 | Here's another high-quality rural Sussex church with a nice range of early spring pictures, this time from 2010. | ||
255 | List of current places of worship in Chichester (district) | 3 March 2012 | Months of preparation went into compiling a spreadsheet that enabled me to write this huge list comparatively quickly. More pics to come: I hope to spend a few days in the area wandering around and taking photos. | ||
256 | St Leodegar's Church, Hunston | 10 March 2012 | One of Arthur Blomfield's many Sussex churches: a replacement for a derelict medieval one. Pevsner didn't like it. | ||
257 | All Souls Church, Hastings | 10 March 2012 | He was happier about this huge red-brick building of 1890, now unfortunately redundant and awaiting a new use. This has been called one of Blomfield's best. | ||
258 | List of former places of worship in Chichester (district) | 28 March 2012 | More than 50 buildings of all flavours are covered here, all with a nice explanatory paragraph but not all with a pic yet ... time for a photography trip, I think! | ||
259 | List of places of worship in Chichester (district) | 31 March 2012 | For the sake of completeness, here's a dab page pulling the "current" and "former" lists together. Now every Sussex district is completed, but plenty remain in other counties! | ||
260 | St George's Church, Eastergate | 16 April 2012 | One of Sussex's many pleasantly ancient rural(ish) churches, with some singular features and plenty of source material. | ||
261 | Crawley Development Corporation | 7 May 2012 | A diversion back to Crawley to document its important and influential Development Corporation, which determined its New Town growth and layout. A surprisingly interesting subject! | ||
262 | List of places of worship in Tunbridge Wells (borough) | 28 May 2012 | Having finished Sussex's churches, chapels and meeting rooms, I could go west (Hampshire), north (Surrey) or east (Kent). Being easy to get to and full of interesting buildings to photograph, Tunbridge Wells in Kent seemed like a good choice. | ||
263 | St Giles' Church, Horsted Keynes | 15 July 2012 | Yet another of the wide range of attractive ancient churches in Mid Sussex, with a lot of interesting burials. Shame it was locked on the day of my photographic visit. | ||
264 | List of places of worship in Tonbridge and Malling | 17 August 2012 | A little way beyond the borough of Tunbridge Wells is this pleasant area of Kent—the subject of my second places of worship list for that county. Next will come Sevenoaks: a three-day trip to the area allowed me to photograph most churches in both areas. | ||
265 | Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 | 21 August 2012 | Before that, though, my current enthusiasm for analysing the registering and de-registering of places of worship led me to write this much-needed short article. | ||
266 | Henry Phillips (horticulturist) | 24 August 2012 | A productive Bank Holiday weekend started with a rare biography article from me: this poor chap's outrageous building scheme in Hove went disastrously wrong. Circeus found some extra sources and stuff – cheers! | ||
267 | Anthaeum, Hove | 24 August 2012 | This was the project in question: a botanical garden under the world's largest dome. Sadly, it was built without a central supporting pillar (not Mr Phillips' fault, I must add). An epic fail ensued. | ||
268 | Palmeira Square | 25 August 2012 | This unfortunate event in Hove's history did allow the attractive Palmeira Square to be built, though. Sussex University students will be familiar with it as the place where the 25 bus terminates. | ||
269 | Listed buildings in Eastbourne | 4 November 2012 | A reasonably big project which had been brewing/going mouldy in a sandbox for a long time, I finally decided to launch this after getting most of the remaining photos over the course of two sunny Saturdays in October. | ||
270 | List of places of worship in Sevenoaks (district) | 11 November 2012 | As promised above under the Tonbridge and Malling list, the neighbouring district of Sevenoaks was next on the Kentish agenda. Incidentally the entire list was copied (table formatting and all!) to form a 13-page appendix to a planning application for the demolition of Dunton Green Free Church! | ||
271 | Montefiore Hospital, Hove | 19 December 2012 | A shortish Brighton and Hove-ish article featuring yet another Clayton & Black building, under development in a sandbox for a few weeks since its transformation into a hospital (it was originally a furniture depository). | ||
272 | Moulsecoomb Place | 21 December 2012 | Another Brighton building article—one of the many to include some Prince Regent lunacy (actually, that bit applies to the now demolished dovecote in the grounds). The pleasant 18th-century mansion now accommodates some administrative functions of the University of Brighton. | ||
273 | The Keep, Brighton | 23 December 2012 | The pre-Christmas frenzy of articles about Brighton-area buildings continues with this new archive and historical record centre, still under construction on the edge of the city near the universities. It turns out that £19.142 million buys you an awful lot of storage space. | ||
274 | Airlink (helicopter shuttle service) | 2 January 2013 | A new topic area for a new year—but there is Crawley relevance, as this "curious and unique" helicopter service ran from Gatwick Airport to Heathrow with some success until its demise in 1986. | ||
275 | Locally listed buildings in Crawley | 10 February 2013 | There are 58 of these in the architecturally much-maligned town, as well as 102 nationally listed buildings ... but there were 59 until this one met a bulldozer. Most of the pics were taken on two winter Saturdays (winter = no leaves on trees = clearer views of buildings). | ||
276 | Ralli Hall | 6 March 2013 | Its centenary is imminent, so here is a long-planned (and longer than expected) article about a nice building in Hove that I have to walk past very regularly. Time for some more photos, maybe?... | ||
277 | Fernhill, West Sussex | 21 March 2013 | An obscure corner of Crawley borough, albeit only since 1990 when boundary changes removed it from Surrey. The hamlet was the site of a horrendous plane crash whose article I expanded at the same time. | ||
278 | Dyers Almshouses | 25 March 2013 | A quadrangle of interesting buildings near Crawley town centre (although not easy to find!). They are locally listed, and also appear on the article I wrote immediately afterwards... | ||
279 | List of conservation areas in Crawley | 25 March 2013 | ...which is a timely contribution to the 'pedia, because the number of conservation areas is due to increase from 8 to 13 in April—assuming the new areas are ratified, that is! 15 April 2013 comment: And indeed they were... The conservation areas range from the obvious (Worth) to the surprising (the Sunnymead flats in West Green). | ||
280 | Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove: I–L | 19 May 2013 | Huge numbers of telephone booths and lamp-posts in this fifth B&H Grade II list, but some "proper" buildings as well—including a couple of well-known pubs. | ||
281 | List of places of worship in Tandridge (district) | 13 June 2013 | My first foray into Surrey, places-of-worship-list-wise, took a long time to plan using one of those infamous spreadsheets (see #106, #255), but only five trips were needed to get the photos. Efficient! | ||
282 | Goodwyns | 15 July 2013 | Visiting this 1960s council estate in Dorking for church photography reasons, I was intrigued by Pevsner's epic praise for its layout and housing stock, so I dug up enough other material for a small article. | ||
283 | List of places of worship in Mole Valley | 24 July 2013 | Here's the next instalment in the series of Surrey places of worship lists. The vast majority of photos were taken in the famously hot, sunny month of July 2013. | ||
284 | Providence Chapel, Charlwood | 25 July 2013 | Situated in that part of Mole Valley which is nearest to the Sussex border (and conveniently close to Crawley) is this remarkable building with an intriguing backstory. It's up for sale; hopefully somebody will buy and restore it! | ||
285 | Astoria Theatre, Brighton | 30 July 2013 | Its days as a prestigious "super-cinema" are long gone, and this distinctive Art Deco building may not be standing for much longer ... permission to demolish it has been granted. | ||
286 | Royal Pavilion Tavern | 1 August 2013 | Another Grade II-listed building in central Brighton ... oddly, it was used as the town's court on a couple of occasions in the 19th century. | ||
287 | List of places of worship in Reigate and Banstead | 7 August 2013 | On the whole, not such bright and sunny photos in Surrey list #3: it always drizzles when I go to Redhill or Reigate (or on one memorable occasion, I get soaked by a monsoon-style summer thunderstorm). Banstead itself was nice and summery though. | ||
288 | List of places of worship in Epsom and Ewell | 17 August 2013 | Staying in Surrey for now, here's a tour of the 30-odd places of worship in the county's smallest borough. There aren't many with listed status... | ||
289 | Bugby Chapel | 19 August 2013 | ...but one of them is this splendidly-named building which had a 215-year career as a place of worship (it's now a stylish office). The Rev. Bugby for whom it was named was the founder; he was influenced by the famous/infamous William Huntington (see here for more on him!). | ||
290 | Adelaide Crescent | 2 October 2013 | A long-planned article about one of Hove's most famous developments—both architecturally and in terms of the panoply of people who lived there. | ||
291 | Public services in Crawley | 5 October 2013 | About as exciting as the equivalent article about Worthing (q.v.), but good if you like photos of sewage works and fire stations. | ||
292 | Gothic House | 7 October 2013 | An interesting but sadly dilapidated early Wilds and Busby building in central Brighton, researched and written following a suggestion by Zigzig20s. | ||
293 | Whitehawk Hill transmitting station | 26 October 2013 | A short article with a long title; not just a Brighton article, but the only remaining redlink among English transmitting stations. | ||
294 | Marine Gate, Brighton | 27 October 2013 | Staying on the east side of Brighton, here's a block of luxury flats: praised by some but greatly disliked by Anthony Seldon (unsurprisingly, as he isn't a fan of the similar Embassy Court). | ||
295 | Norfolk Hotel, Brighton | 8 November 2013 | The latest of several informal collaborations with Zigzig20s is this article documenting the interesting history and pleasing architecture of one of Brighton's well-known seafront hotels. | ||
296 | Bear Road, Brighton | 22 December 2013 | Not just a road (although it's an interesting one ... long, ridiculously steep and named in reference to bear-baiting); this has become the generic name of a whole suburb of Brighton. Terraced houses and splendid views characterise it. | ||
297 | Buildings and architecture of Brighton and Hove | 30 December 2013 | In preparation since July 2010 in a sandbox, this 16,000-word, picture-heavy epic discusses everything from faience-clad villas to pompous clock towers. | ||
298 | Thomas Simpson (architect) | 5 May 2014 | Another architect with a fine array of buildings in Brighton and Hove (mainly Brighton, though, and some have been demolished). Unlike e.g. John Leopold Denman, he wasn't a native Brightonian. | ||
299 | Gilbert Murray Simpson | 5 May 2014 | His son Gilbert was, though, and he was in his father's firm before designing some bits and pieces around the city in the interwar era, mainly in a slightly Georgian brown-brickish style. | ||
300 | List of former board schools in Brighton and Hove | 5 May 2014 | The main work done by both Simpsons was this splendid series of schools, mainly in inner suburban areas, such as... | ||
301 | Elm Grove, Brighton | 7 May 2014 | ...this one (hilly, lots of terraced houses, landmark elm trees, good Victorian buildings of various types, blocked-up railway tunnel)... | ||
302 | Prestonville, Brighton | 7 May 2014 | ...and this one (on a hillside, smashing views, nice largeish villas and terraced houses, no open space, some interesting ex-residents). | ||
303 | Henry Michell Wagner | 23 July 2014 | Rev. Wagner was the Vicar of Brighton for a long and turbulent period of the 19th century. This long, detailed biography was a long-term collaboration with Zigzig20s. | ||
304 | List of places of worship in Guildford (borough) | 3 October 2014 | More than a hundred churches/chapels/meeting rooms and a single synagogue are covered in the fifth installment of Surrey places of worship list action—all accompanied by sunny midsummer photos. | ||
305 | Libraries in Brighton and Hove | 24 November 2014 | A lengthy summary of library provision throughout the area now covered by the city—from Miss Widgett's Proprietary Library to the impressive modern Jubilee Library. | ||
306 | Hanningtons | 16 December 2014 | Actually started by User:Davidstewartharvey, I used pre-prepared material from a sandbox to expand the story of this legendary, much-missed Brighton institution, with its excellent Santa's Grotto, ancient lifts, quirky layout and old-fashioned ambience. | ||
307 | Percy and Wagner Almshouses | 21 December 2014 | These interesting old cottages, hidden away behind one of Brighton's major road junctions, are the only surviving almshouses in the city ... and they were nearly demolished in the 1970s. Fortunately, in a mostly dismal decade for Brighton's architectural heritage, they were listed and restored just in time. | ||
308 | Tower House, Brighton | 6 February 2015 | I found some interesting material in a book that had to go back to the library; checked a few other sources and found more; and remembered I'd taken a photo of this classy Edwardian listed building some 4½ years ago. Result: a quick article got written when I should have been doing other things. | ||
309 | Forge Wood | 19 March 2015 | The mythical 14th neighbourhood of Crawley finally has a name, a location (up near Tinsley Green, q.v.) and an article ... oh, and a lot of photos of foundations, muddy fields, roadworks etc. in its accompanying Commons category. | ||
310 | Arthur Wagner | 6 August 2015 | Like his father Henry Michell Wagner (q.v.), Arthur attracted remarkably controversy in Brighton during his long incumbency at St Paul's Church. This article was another collaboration with Zigzig20s. | ||
311 | Waste House | 16 September 2015 | A brilliantly quirky building behind the University of Brighton, and potential winner of a national award from RIBA (watch this space!). It's made out of rubbish, including thousands of old toothbrushes discarded on aeroplanes (!) and a mountain of cut-off legs of jeans. 2016 update: it didn't win that award, sadly. | ||
312 | Meadrow Unitarian Chapel | 2 October 2015 | The second in a series of places of worship in the stylish Surrey town of Godalming (the first was an expansion of the Catholic church's article) is the modest 18th-century building used by the Unitarian congregation, out of town on the River Wey. | ||
313 | Godalming Friends Meeting House | 3 October 2015 | Moving back into the centre of Godalming, this ancient building (not dissimilar in style to Meadrow chapel) can be found between the station and the Rose & Crown pub. | ||
314 | Salvation Army Hall, Godalming | 4 October 2015 | And just round the corner is this distinctive Classical-style building, used by three denominations but now converted into an office since its closure in 2012 (sadly I didn't get there in time to grab a photo when it was still in religious use!). | ||
315 | Godalming Congregational Church | 5 October 2015 | Another ex-chapel, now a rather upmarket-looking restaurant. The ex-Salvation Army hall was originally built for Congregationalists, and this building on Bridge Street was its successor. The congregation have now moved to Godalming United Church, an article I might expand at some point. | ||
316 | List of places of worship in Waverley (borough) | 9 October 2015 | As it says in the lead, this enormous list—my longest "places of worship" list so far, in terms of bytes—covers the churches, chapels and meeting rooms of this enormous and very pleasant borough (although the pubs are rather expensive, except the one in Churt). | ||
317 | Park Lane Chapel, Farnham | 12 October 2015 | I was interested to find in one of my obscure book sources that this distinctive and attractive Strict Baptist chapel, closed fairly recently, was founded by a Jewish convert from what used to be Congress (Russian) Poland, who found himself in Farnham in the mid-1840s. Surprising! It's now a house. | ||
318 | List of places of worship in Woking (borough) | 22 December 2015 | When "places of worship" and "Woking" are in the same sentence, discussion generally begins and ends with the famous, opulent Shah Jahan Mosque. There are plenty of other interesting entries in this list, though – and several mentions of the prolific architect W.F. Unsworth (could he have his own article one day?...) | ||
319 | Rolling stock of Network SouthEast | 7 March 2016 | Another of my great interests is the former Network SouthEast sector of British Rail, of red lamp-post fame. Articles about its history, marketing, distinctive branding and so on may follow, but to start with here's a list article covering the vast array of rolling stock used in its eight-year lifespan. | ||
320 | Courtenay Gate | 23 March 2016 | Hove is crammed with opulent, architecturally interesting blocks of flats (or mansion apartments, to be posh) with varying levels of locally or nationally listed status. On the local list is this prominently situated interwar seaside block, whose penthouse suite was home to a celebrity in the 1960s. Ooh! I haven't found much info about the architects yet. | ||
321 | 2–3 Pavilion Buildings, Brighton | 25 March 2016 | Yet another of John Leopold Denman's Neo-Georgian specialities, this elegant office building was home to Brighton's oldest newspaper... | ||
322 | Brighton Herald | 26 March 2016 | ...one of England's most important provincial newspapers for more than 150 years, which was good at breaking stories from continental Europe in the 19th century (Brighton being handily placed for the shipping route from Dieppe, by which news was delivered). It survived until 1971. | ||
323 | Princes House, Brighton | 22 December 2016 | About 30 seconds up the road from Pavilion Buildings is this excellent interwar building by Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel (yes, it's him again!), still showing the scars of a recent fire on one of the upper storeys. It has had various uses over the years. | ||
324 | Percy Stone | 23 December 2016 | Most of my work on Wikipedia in the second half of 2016 concerned the Isle of Wight and its churches and buildings. One prolific architect on the island and elsewhere was this London-born antiquarian, archaeologist and author. | ||
325 | List of current places of worship on the Isle of Wight | 26 July 2017 | This took 14 months (!) of work in a sandbox. Over 130 churches, chapels and a single mosque are covered across 235 kilobytes, 523 references and an awful lot of images, taken on days of varying sunniness in the summers of 2016 and 2017. Former places of worship will follow in due course! | ||
326 | Thomas Hellyer (architect) | 26 July 2017 | Another 19th-century architect not native to the Isle of Wight but long associated with it. Hellyer was based in Ryde, is buried there and contributed greatly to the resort's townscape—not least with the tall landmark spire of his sadly closed Holy Trinity Church, visible even from Portsmouth on a good day. | ||
327 | St Wilfrid's Church, Hailsham | 5 March 2019 | Preparation for this article started in 2012, when the present church was not even a drawing in the architect's office. After getting some pics of what is the newest church building in the Diocese I have finally managed to summarise the interesting story of Catholicism in Hailsham, through the various temporary churches to the three (!) permanent buildings, all of which survive (!!). | ||
328 | St George's Church, Polegate | 5 March 2019 | The other Catholic church in St Wilfrid's parish is this prominently sited building a couple of miles down the road in the railway town of Polegate. | ||
329 | Worthing Tramocars | 14 March 2019 | A short-lived but fondly remembered part of Worthing's transport history: these buses were converted dustbin lorries, invented by a man called Bill Gates. You couldn't make it up! A replica survives in excellent condition. | ||
330 | Waterlooville Baptist Church | 19 November 2019 | I have spent much time in the last couple of years researching and photographing places of worship in Hampshire. Here is the first article, about an "uncompromisingly modernist" building which won universal acclaim from architectural historians, but which my work colleague said looked like a swimming pool. Harsh! It serves the town of Waterlooville, a mostly dismal place architecturally. | ||
331 | Five Ash Down Independent Chapel | 28 November 2019 | I did some more research into Nonconformist places of worship in my native Sussex around this time, and decided to write a couple more articles about 18th-century chapels. | ||
332 | Uckfield Baptist Church | 29 November 2019 | This church, housed until recently in an elegant brick-built chapel in the pleasant town of Uckfield, was founded by seceders from the Five Ash Down chapel (q.v.), who got themselves into irreconcilable differences within a year. | ||
333 | List of places of worship in the Borough of Havant | 29 January 2020 | This places-of-worship list is the first Hampshire one to "mature" into mainspace, but I have been preparing five simultaneously in sandboxes for many months, and another three have already had their spreadsheets prepared. One of several small, densely populated boroughs in southeast Hampshire, Havant has a decent number of interesting churches and chapels, plus a Hindu temple in an old semi-detached house. | ||
334 | St Thomas à Becket Church, Warblington | 29 January 2020 | The borough's oldest church—although I can't find a reliable source for that (!)—is in an unusually rural and quiet area just outside Havant town centre. It was well liked by 19th-century body-snatchers for its seclusion. A potentially devastating fire in 2011 was luckily spotted by a neighbouring farmer whose cows were unusually restless: evidently they had spotted the smoke and flames. | ||
335 | List of places of worship in Portsmouth | 31 January 2020 | All 100 surviving places of worship (mosques, temples and synagogues as well as Christian churches, chapels and meeting rooms) in this fascinating city are documented and illustrated in this list, 21⁄2 years in preparation. Dozens more were lost to bombing in World War II or have been demolished at other times: 61, according to my spreadsheet, but quite possibly more! | ||
336 | List of places of worship in the Borough of Fareham | 19 February 2020 | The third Hampshire list to be launched, this covers exactly 40 places of worship in the fairly small, fairly suburbanised borough, whose convenient transport links also made it fairly easy to get around when I was on my mid-2019 photography mission. | ||
337 | Swanwick Shore Strict Baptist Chapel | 19 February 2020 | The borough's westernmost chapel is also arguably its most interesting; a classic Strict Baptist chapel (plain, simple, brick-built, early 19th-century) with a typically fascinating founder. | ||
338 | Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove: N–O | 8 May 2020 | About 10 years after I started the first part, here is part 6 (of 10) of the lists of Brighton and Hove's Grade II listed buildings. | ||
339 | Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove: P–R | 10 May 2020 | The seventh part followed immediately. An assortment of railings, a triumphal arch and the Pepper Pot (q.v.) are among the structures featured. | ||
340 | Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove: S | 15 May 2020 | Lots of churches, seafront shelters and statues on this list, plus a few pubs and a lot of buildings on Ship Street. | ||
341 | Brighton and Hove National Spiritualist Church | 19 May 2020 | Enough sources existed to write a decent article on a newly established Spiritualist church (following the amalgamation of two of the city's congregations). The extremely distinctive building it occupies is a surprisingly elegant classic of 1960s Brutalism. | ||
342 | Montpelier Place Baptist Church, Brighton | 19 May 2020 | Another architecturally interesting mid-1960s church, coincidentally a few steps away from the Spiritualist church which closed down (see above), this was sadly demolished in 2018 after an eventful period of disuse. Don't be fooled by the age of the building: the congregation could trace its roots back a very long way indeed. | ||
343 | List of places of worship in the Borough of Gosport | 29 May 2020 | The fourth of the Hampshire places of worship lists was launched into mainspace after simmering in a sandbox for a while. A delightfully preserved tin tabernacle is among the churches in the interesting town of Gosport itself. | ||
344 | Crown House, St Leonards-on-Sea | 29 May 2020 | The very first building put up in this early 19th-century seaside resort was the developer James Burton's own house—an elegant villa which nevertheless nearly got demolished in the 1950s when an unsympathetic borough council said some very uncomplimentary things about it. Now restored to residential use after some years as a pub, it looks better than it has done for many years. | ||
345 | List of places of worship in the Borough of Eastleigh | 1 June 2020 | The last of the relatively urban, easy-to-travel-round boroughs in the part of Hampshire closest to my home county of Sussex, I covered Eastleigh borough's array of Plymouth Brethren meeting rooms, medieval churches and interesting modern buildings at the same time as the Havant/Fareham/Gosport trips. There is also a tin tabernacle which is just about hanging on to "current places of worship" status. | ||
346 | List of former places of worship on the Isle of Wight | 21 June 2020 | Yet another Lockdown Production™ was the eventual completion and launch of this lengthy list of ex-churches and chapels on England's largest island. Remarkably, more than half of them are Methodist, reflecting the dominance of that denomination and the founding of a chapel in nearly every village and hamlet. Closures continue, so movements on to this list from this one are likely. | ||
347 | Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove: T–V | 3 July 2020 | The ninth instalment of the city's Grade II listed buildings features tombs, tram shelters, a couple of pubs (one housed in a very old chapel) and an awful lot of late Victorian villas on The Drive in Hove. | ||
348 | Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove: W–Z | 5 July 2020 | The last part only has "W" buildings at the moment (mostly walls of various styles and sizes), but maybe one of the nice properties along York Place will be granted listed status one day … or even the Zylo Works! | ||
349 | List of places of worship in Elmbridge | 4 January 2021 | Back up to Surrey for the first time in 5 years for another list of churches, chapels and synagogues, this time in the famously affluent "Beverly Hills of Britain". Lockdown encouraged me to upload over 400 relevant images and dig out the research on the 60-odd places of worship in the borough. | ||
350 | Weybridge United Reformed Church | 4 January 2021 | One such is this impressive Victorian Gothic chapel in Weybridge town centre: a listed building with a fairly interesting history. | ||
351 | Yapton Free Church | 7 January 2021 | Yet another piece of lockdown "work" has involved me consolidating all of my sources for Sussex places of worship (including the recently acquired updated editions of the Buildings of England (a.k.a. Pevsner) series) and working out all the churches and chapels that are sufficiently notable for me to write about ... such as this nice Grade II-listed one. | ||
352 | South Street Free Church, Eastbourne | 9 January 2021 | Another one is this interesting town-centre chapel in Eastbourne, which belongs to the locally prominent but otherwise fairly obscure Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion denomination. The narrow, busy street makes it awkward to photograph! | ||
353 | Crowborough Community Church | 22 January 2021 | Chapels can be notable even if they are not listed buildings, as I attempt to prove with this short but useful article on an interesting, attractive chapel in the centre of the photogenic town of Crowborough. Incidentally there are more than 40 others on the "notable and worth writing about list" (in Sussex as a whole, not Crowborough!) ... how many more will I manage before lockdown ends? | ||
354 | Galeed Strict Baptist Chapel, Brighton | 26 February 2021 | Here's another ... an excellent Neoclassical chapel very near Brighton station (possibly the closest place of worship to it?), and yet another in the array of Strict Baptist chapels in East Sussex. Some prominent people were associated with it, as ministers, deacons and worshippers. | ||
355 | List of places of worship in East Hampshire | 16 August 2021 | Having already taken photos of a fair proportion of the 120 or so past and present places of worship in this vast, mostly rural district, I spent much of the summer of 2021 compiling this list while breaking off for a week to rush around in very mixed weather and get almost all the rest. At the same time I worked through the neighbouring City of Winchester district, whose (even larger) list will follow in due course! | ||
356 | Wellington Square Baptist Church, Hastings | 4 February 2022 | Back to Sussex Nonconformist chapels, and an imposing Grade II*-listed one with an interesting and fairly long history. | ||
357 | Hastings Unitarian Church | 4 February 2022 | Followed by another in central Hastings, 30 years newer (younger?) and not listed, although it is architecturally impressive! | ||
358 | Public services in Brighton and Hove | 2 September 2022 | An extremely long and rather tedious article (the subject matter, not the style of writing, hopefully!), but useful in covering all aspects of policing, healthcare, water supply and stuff like that in the city, both now and historically. | ||
359 | Ote Hall Chapel | 6 October 2022 | Another of the splendid historic Nonconformist chapels in Sussex, languishing in a sandbox until I found some old newspaper articles with some interesting, usable content. | ||
360 | Clarence House, Brighton | 12 December 2022 | It's many years since beer was sold here, but this building of 1785 (the oldest surviving on Brighton's commercial hub, North Street) was originally a coaching inn. Conversion to a restaurant and flats is pending. | ||
361 | Lewes Road, Brighton | 17 March 2023 | Probably the most interesting 3+1⁄2 miles (5.6 km) of A-road in the city, with its mixture of excellent churches, ultramodern university buildings, small shops and random Victorian architecture. Work on the article proceeded at a rate of 1 mile every 2 years. | ||
362 | Pubs in Brighton | 17 March 2023 | A subject on which I can speak with authority, being regularly found propping up one bar or another around the area. Having said that, I have photographed more than I've actually visited! | ||
363 | Winchester United Church | 24 March 2023 | Probably the most interesting and architecturally significant of the many Nonconformist chapels and meeting-houses in the delightful, ancient city of Winchester, which is better known for its Anglican cathedral. | ||
364 | List of places of worship in the City of Winchester District | 24 March 2023 | The city forms a small part of the wider, confusingly named City of Winchester District, which as can be seen has a great many places of worship of all types and sizes – some of which are extraordinarily hard to get to if you don't have a car! | ||
365 | Hove Library | 13 September 2023 | A splendid building with a very good collection of books and rarities: I have spent many hours in there doing Wikipedia research. Written in time for a link to it to appear on "Today's Featured Article" on 11 November 2023 (Hove War Memorial): there are memorial name plaques in the library entrance vestibule. | ||
366 | Lewes Friends Meeting House | 12 January 2024 | In a town which is known as a hotbed of Protestant Nonconformity, it is no surprise to find a venerable Quaker meeting house with origins in the very early days of the movement. Here's its story. | ||
366 | Horsham Friends Meeting House | 13 January 2024 | Lewes is in East Sussex; Horsham is its West Sussex equivalent in terms of Protestant Nonconformity. Again, it has an excellent Grade II-listed Quaker meeting house, built around the same time as Lewes but in a somewhat different (but still characteristically humble) style. | ||
366 | Church of the Sacred Heart, Fareham | 22 February 2024 | Quick article on a small, attractive Victorian Catholic church by the same (currently article-less) architect who designed my own parish church. More research is needed to write a proper article for him; watch this space! |