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St. Michael and All Angels, Brighton  |
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| Western end of St. Michael and All Angels Church. | |
| Dedication | St. Michael |
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| Denomination | Church of England |
| Tradition | High Church |
| Administration | |
| Parish | Brighton, St. Michael and All Angels |
| Deanery | Brighton |
| Archdeaconry | Chichester |
| Diocese | Chichester |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Clergy | |
| Canon | Rev. R. S. Fayers(Vicar) |
| Curate | Rev. C. J. Woodman |
| Curate | Rev. B. A. North |
| Honorary priest | Rev. R. Robinson |
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| Website | http://www.saintmichaelsbrighton.org/ |
- This article is about a church in Brighton;
for others dedicated to St. Michael, see St. Michael's Church.
For other churches in Brighton, see Churches of Brighton.
St. Michael's Church (in full, St. Michael and All Angels) is an Anglican church in Brighton, United Kingdom, dating from the mid-Victorian era. Located on Victoria Road in the western end of Brighton, to the east of Montpelier Road, it is one of the largest churches in Brighton and Hove.
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[edit] History
The church was originally built between 1858 and 1861 to a design by George Frederick Bodley (whose father had been a doctor in Brighton)[1] and decorated by Edward Burne-Jones and by William Morris, a long-term friend of Bodley. However, this fine building quickly became too small and, in 1865, William Burges designed a new church which would incorporate Bodley's building as its two South aisles, but which would not be built until 1893 - this addition reportedly caused Bodley some upset.[2].
[edit] Architecture
As stated above, this building dates to two periods - Burges' enlargement substantially altered the character of the building, abandoning Bodley's polychrome brickwork interior for proper stone dressings, but he retained the polychrome style for the somewhat brutal exterior. The interior features many stained glass windows by Morris in the old building and Burne-Jones in the new. The East end of Burges' building features a large trio of stepped lancets with basic two-light tracery.
[edit] References
- ^ Jenkins, Simon (1999): England's Thousand Best Churches, page 687. Penguin, London. ISBN 0-713-99281-6
- ^ Jenkins, Simon (1999): England's Thousand Best Churches, page 687. Penguin, London. ISBN 0-713-99281-6
