St John the Evangelist's Church, Preston Village, Brighton

The village of Preston was established on a downland site 1.5 mi north-northwest of Brighton before the time of the Domesday Book of 1086. St Peter's Church was its original parish church. No trace remains of the building mentioned in the Domesday Book: it was rebuilt in about 1260 in flint with a chancel, nave and tower. The village, based around a crossroads and a manor house, Preston Manor, became part of the Borough of Brighton on 31 October 1873. At the time, St Peter's Church still held its ancient status as the parish church of Preston. However, after it was devastated by a serious fire on 23 June 1906, the church authorities decided to transfer parish church status to St John the…

Sir Arthur Blomfield designed the church in the Early English style. it has a nave of 5¼ bays, and there is only a slight change in the roofline to the chancel beyond it. At the east end of the nave, where the roof profile changes, there is a small flèche made of wood and lead. The exterior is stone, faced with rock and dressed with stone blocks. The roof is tiled. The church has a chancel, chancel arch, nave with aisles on the north and south sides, vestry at the northeast corner, baptistery, buttressed narthex (entered from the nave through arches in the buttresses, beneath an overall arch and tympanum) and clerestories above the aisles. Both the aisles and the clerestories have five…

, whose former parish is now part of St John the Evangelist's]] St John the Evangelist's Church was listed at Grade II by English Heritage on 26 August 1999. It is one of 1,124 Grade II-listed buildings and structures, and 1,218 listed buildings of all grades, in the city of Brighton and Hove. The parish was extended in the early 21st century after the closure of St Augustine's Church, which opened in 1896 on Stanford Avenue at the south end of Preston Park. It was declared redundant in 2002 and its parish joined St John the Evangelist's. The parish is officially named "St John with St Augustine and St Saviour", The parish boundaries are the railway line between Preston Park station and New…