St Luke's Church, Queen's Park, Brighton

Queen's Park was laid out as an ornamental park of 15.3 acre in 1824. Charles Barry was hired to design decorative entrances and a villa for the park's owner. Housing development around the park had started in the 1810s and continued throughout the 19th century. In 1880 a separate parish was established, and preparatory work on the new church started the following year on the opposite side of the road. and Arthur Blomfield finished the church in 1885, apart from a proposed spire which was never built because of a lack of money. A memorial to the then-incumbent vicar Arthur Young's son, who died in World War I, was erected in 1918; two years later a memorial to all parishioners who had died…

The church is built predominantly of flint with mouldings and window dressings of stone. it can hold up to 900 people. Its south and west elevations face the street. At the east end is a three-bay chancel flanked by a Lady chapel and vestry to the south and north respectively. This adjoins the four-bay, north- and south-aisled nave, at the southwest corner of which is the octagonal tower. A substantial, three-stage structure with a shallow cap at the same height as the nave roof, the tower was in fact intended to be much taller and topped with a spire rising to 160 ft; but the extension and spire were never built. The entrance is in a porch which runs along the length of the west face.…