20-484: Kemptown may refer to: Kemptown, Brighton , England Kemp Town , a prestigious residential estate in Brighton Kemptown, Nova Scotia , Canada [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
40-485: A railway station in 1869. The line, featuring two viaducts and a tunnel, was built at great cost partly to block the route for other railways from London. The railway lost out to bus traffic (the route from Brighton was longer than the road journey) and was closed to passenger traffic in 1933, surviving for freight until the 1970s. There remain a number of bus services through Kemptown, and the Volk's Electric Railway passes
60-441: A church to serve the new estate. He obtained a private Act of Parliament on 3 June 1824, which allowed him to appoint a perpetual curate and derive income from the rental or sale of pews. This was a common procedure at the time: it allowed churches to be built as an investment, and pew rental could be quite profitable. Construction work continued throughout 1824 and 1825. The church opened on 1 January 1826, two days after it
80-403: A large area of eastern Brighton, including the whole of Kemptown , parts of Whitehawk , Brighton Marina and Roedean School . The church has a community centre at which various groups meet regularly, and a café, in the crypt below the building. The café is operated in partnership with a local special school . The crypt facilities were built (along with some supporting structural work for
100-411: A more conventional position in the south gallery; and both the north and the south galleries were rebuilt at their eastern ends to align with the chancel extension. All of the seating was replaced, increasing the capacity to 1,300. St George's was a chapel of ease until 1879, when it was given its own parish. In its present form , incorporating the former parishes of St Anne and St Mark, this covers
120-620: A residential estate on land beyond the existing eastern boundary of Brighton, with large houses for affluent people. Designed by Charles Busby and Amon Wilds and built by Thomas Cubitt , this estate became Kemp Town, although Kemp had fled the country to escape debts by the time construction finished. The Busby–Wilds partnership had also been responsible for building the Holy Trinity chapel (in Ship Street in central Brighton) for Kemp's sect, and in 1824 Kemp enlisted Busby to build
140-463: A sizeable LGBT community and a network of streets with specialised shops, hotels, cafés and pubs. There is a space available to the community in the crypt of St. George's Church , known as The Crypt , which was built with support from a European Union urban regeneration fund. The Royal Sussex County Hospital is located in Kemptown. Kemptown Carnival is held each year. Kemptown gained
160-522: Is more correctly King's Cliff. Much of the housing is slightly later but still of the Regency style, although there is also Victorian architecture and some more modern buildings. Conversions of grand Regency buildings into flats and bars has provided Kemptown with some distinctive properties; one club is housed within the Sassoon Mausoleum , the former burial chamber of Edward Sassoon . In
180-539: Is to the west of the area. Travelling inland (north) from Kemptown one finds Queen's Park above the western portion of Kemptown. Further to the east are the Bristol Estate, Craven Vale estate, and Whitehawk , sometimes collectively known as "East Brighton". Returning south to the seafront, Kemptown's easterly neighbours are Black Rock and then Roedean . Also within walking distance is Brighton Marina . Historically known as an actors' and artists' quarter, it has
200-476: The King's Cliff to Black Rock in the east of Brighton , East Sussex , England . As of the 2021 Census , it has the highest percentage of residents identifying as LGB+ out of any Intermediate Zone (MSOA) , with over 20%. The area takes its name from Thomas Read Kemp 's Kemp Town residential estate of the early 19th Century, but the one-word name now refers to an area larger than the original development and
220-580: The area along the beach. 50°49′08″N 0°07′21″W / 50.81889°N 0.12250°W / 50.81889; -0.12250 St. George%27s Church, Brighton St George's Church is an Anglican church in the Kemptown area of Brighton , in the English city of Brighton and Hove . It was built at the request of Thomas Read Kemp , who had created and financed the Kemp Town estate on
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#1732772694191240-427: The chapel of St Mary's Hall, an independent school. Busby designed St George's Church in a Neoclassical style , with simple clean lines and strong symmetry. The exterior consists of yellow brick with some stucco work, regularly spaced tiered pairs of round-headed windows, and a deep cornice with no ornamentation. The western face, where the entrance is situated, has Ionic columns and pilasters on each side of
260-579: The church in 1828, his close association with Queen Adelaide , the consort of King William IV , made the church very popular. The queen consort was popular with the British people and often spent time in Brighton. When in the town, she worshipped at St George's. By 1831, the church's seating capacity was being exceeded, and a new gallery was added at the western end. Thomas Cubitt 's building firm completed this in one week. The organ had to be moved from
280-402: The church in 1962, but the congregation contested the decision and the threat was lifted. The parish later absorbed that of St Anne's Church in nearby Burlington Street, whose congregation was in decline; it was closed and demolished in 1986. In 1986, St Mark's Church was also closed and officially made redundant, and its parish was also amalgamated with that of St George. The building is now
300-506: The cliffs east of Brighton in the early 19th century, and is now regarded as the parish church of the wider Kemptown area. It is a Grade II listed building . Thomas Read Kemp, born in 1782 in Lewes , East Sussex, returned to the Church of England in 1823, seven years after founding his own independent sect . Turning his attention to architecture and town planning , he decided to create
320-462: The door, and a central tower topped by a cupola with a small cross. Clock faces were added on each side soon in 1840. Inside, there are galleries at the northern, southern and western sides, reached by curved staircases. There was a three-tier pulpit in front of the reredos at the eastern end, and the organ , by the J.C. Bishop & Son organ builder firm, was initially inside the western gallery. After Revd James Anderson became curate of
340-424: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kemptown&oldid=924381475 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Kemptown, Brighton Kemptown is a small community running along
360-586: The nineteenth century, Kemptown was home to the Brighton Institute for Deaf and Dumb Children, at 127-132 Eastern Road (now demolished), opposite Brighton College . One of its inmates was Richard Aslatt Pearce , the first deaf ordained Anglican clergyman. Since 1950, the locality has given its name to the Brighton Kemptown parliamentary constituency, covering a wider area of eastern Brighton and at times Peacehaven. Central Brighton
380-416: The original western gallery to make room for the new structure; unusually, it was erected behind the altar at the eastern end. After it was acquired by the congregation and placed in trust, £11,050 was spent on large-scale alterations to the church. A chancel was added at the eastern end, with a new window in the eastern wall; the reredos was replaced with a larger version; the organ was moved again, into
400-656: Was consecrated by the Bishop of Chichester . The final cost was £11,000. By 1831, Kemp had sold his interest in the church to Laurence Peel , the son of Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet , who lived in Sussex Square in Kemp Town. Upon Peel's death in 1888 it passed to his son, Charles Lennox Peel, who sold it to the congregation the following year. It was then passed into trust . St George's had been parished since 1879. The Diocese of Chichester considered closing
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