Talk:Sussex Towns and Villages B
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Brighton
- Middle Street Synagogue replaced an earlier synagogue. The interior is lavishly decorated with stained glass and decorative metalwork at the top of the pillars depicting plants and fruits from the Bible. It is occcasionally open to the public on Sundays, and is often open during the annual Brighton Festival. View its excellent website here http://www.bhhc-shul.org/middlestreet/index.html
- St Bartholomew is the tallest parish church in the country, the nave at 135 ft high is higher than that of Westminster Abbey. Built in red brick, it was one of several churches financed by the wealthy Anglo-Catholic cleric the Reverend Arthur Wagner and designed by Edmund Scott, a local architect and can seat 1500 people. Wagner built the church primarily for the use of the poor of the area and broke with the Brighton tradition of charging for some of the seats making it free for all.
- St Michaels and All Angels comprises of two churches, the first begun by GF Bodley and the second more elaborate by William Burgess. It is one of the first redbrick churches to have been built in Brighton, and has windows designed by William Morris and Sir Edward Burne-Jones.
