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QUEENS PARK PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH

Queen's Park Road (1)

between Egremont Place and Islingword Road

Neighbourhood:
Queen's Park
1970
2018

James Gray: 1/3 photographs of this church, taken on 22 March 1970. Its future seemed uncertain, after a life of some seventy years (it was built in the 1890s) so I had it photographed in case of early demolition. I need not have worried because as I write (in 1990) the building still stands empty and boarded up. Services ceased and in 1988 plans were approved for its conversion to flats, but nothing has happened yet. Some day it will come down so here is a record of it. Rear view in this photograph taken from Albion Hill. jgc_27_162

2018: The anticipated early demolition of Queen’s Park Primitive Methodist Church failed to happen and the building was converted into the Orchard Day Nursery in May 1991. Although altered internally the exterior of the building remains substantially the same. (Photographer: Ron Fitton) 

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1970
2018

James Gray: 2/3 photographs of this church, taken on 22 March 1970. [See caption for jgc_27_162 above.] View of the front elevation in Queen’s Park Road. jgc_27_163

2018: The building is unchanged apart from the central façade now having a triangular pediment instead of the horizontal parapet. (Photographer: Kevin Wilsher)

1970
2018

James Gray: 3/3 photographs of this church, taken on 22 March 1970. [See caption for jgc_27_162 above.] jgc_27_164

2018: See caption for jgc_27_162 above. (Photographer: Ron Fitton) 

Historic and Contemporary Images of Brighton and Hove
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