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St Augustine's Church

Built in Perpendicular Style in 1896
By John Desborough
Photo:St Augustine's Church
Photo:St Augustine's Church
Photo:Scout hut
Photo:Former vicarage

A large red brick edifice in Perpendicular style. It was built in 1896 by G.E. Streatfield. It has a clerestoried nave and an apsidal chancel. The church has stained glass by Charles Kempe of 1901-2. The Church Hall was built in 1901 in memory of Queen Victoria.

The church has been deconsecrated and combined with St. Saviour's Methodist Church, Stanford Avenue.

This page was added on 10/06/2008.

Comments:

How nice to see one of Brighton's less well known churches as a feature. More so for me as I was christened there in 1950 by the Rev Johnston. Sunday School and church choir followed, I seem to remember that payment was calculated for choir and weddings at a rate that included a farthing! I entered the 4th Brighton Cubs followed by the Scouts who met in the old wooden hut round the corner in Florence Road. My doctors is opposite and recently I saw the hut was still there! Can it be the same one? The church hall was great inside, having a balcony on three sides which was great for the jumble sales always run there. It was like a department store of jumble!
During a storm in the Sixties a big tree in front of the church blew over and us Scouts dug out the [deep!]roots. Passing by last week I noticed the broken church railings still there where the tree struck them.

By Geoffrey Mead (12/06/2008)

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