Brighton Indian Soldiers War Memorial

Heritage listing

Details BRIGHTON TQ3104SW PAVILION BUILDINGS 577-1/64/664 (North side) 13/10/52 The South Gate and attached walls, piers and wooden gates (Formerly Listed as: South (Indian) Gate of the Royal Pavilion) II Memorial gateway to Pavilion Gardens. Dated 1921 on east wall. Designed by Thomas Tyrwhitt. Bath stone. Square in plan with domed roof; 37 feet high. Archaeologically accurate essay in the Gujerati style. 4 square piers set on high socles, to which are attached octagonal columns; 2 volute brackets at each corner support a roof which consists of 2 stages. The first stage is shallow and hipped, rising to frieze consisting of a frieze ornamented with sunflowers and petals, each corner of this frieze finishing in an upturned, prow-like volute; there follow architraves, each setting back to form a square base from which rises a dome crowned by a high pinnacle. Inside, corner squinches dive into an octagonal cornice with a flat ceiling above. Side walls and piers close off the road; wooden gates between panelled piers with ornamented tops. Inscription on the south face of west wall reads: "This Gateway is the Gift of India in Commemoration of Her Sons Who Stricken in the Great War Were tended in the Pavilion in 1914 and 1915". Inscription in the east wall reads: "Dedicated to the Use of the Inhabitants of Brighton by H.H. the Maharaja of Patiala on October the 26th, 1921, B. Southall Mayor". HISTORICAL NOTE: the structure stands near the site of the first south gate to the Pavilion, completed for William IV on 7 May 1831, to match the North Gate on North Street (qv). After the estate was purchased in 1851 by the Borough, the first south gate was demolished to make room for Pavilion Buildings. An iron gate erected to provide pedestrian access at that time. (Carder T: The Ency

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.