Visit Kemptown, Brighton Places

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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Kemptown, Brighton

  

Kemptown, Brighton Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Kemptown, Brighton

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Kemptown, Brighton history

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The area takes its name from Thomas Read Kemp’s Kemp Town residential estate of the early 19th Century. Much of the housing is slightly later but still of the Regency style, although there is also Victorian architecture and some more modern buildings. In the nineteenth century, Kemptown was home to the Brighton Institute for Deaf and Dumb Children.

You can visit Kemptown, Brighton places with Walkfo Kemptown, Brighton to hear history at Kemptown, Brighton’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Kemptown, Brighton has 195 places to visit in our interactive Kemptown, Brighton map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Kemptown, Brighton, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Kemptown, Brighton places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Kemptown, Brighton & the surrounding areas.

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195 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Best Kemptown, Brighton places to visit

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Kemptown, Brighton has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Kemptown, Brighton’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Kemptown, Brighton’s information audio spots:

St Wulfran’s Church, Ovingdean St Wulfran’s Church is an Anglican church in Ovingdean, a rural village now within the English city of Brighton and Hove. The church is listed at Grade I, a designation used for buildings “of outstanding architectural or historic interest”

St Luke’s Church, Queen’s Park, Brighton St Luke’s Church is an Anglican church in the Queen’s Park area of Brighton. It was designed in the 1880s by Sir Arthur Blomfield in the Early English style. It has been given listed building status because of its architectural importance.

Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity, Brighton The Church of the Holy Trinity is a Greek Orthodox church in Brighton. Built in 1838 in one of Brighton’s most notorious slum districts, Carlton Hill. It was an Anglican church for most of its life until it was declared redundant in 1980. It has been listed at Grade II since 1971.

St Mary the Virgin, Brighton St Mary’s Church is an Anglican church in the Kemptown area of Brighton. The present building dates from the late 1870s and replaced a church of the same name which collapsed while being renovated. The Gothic-style red-brick building is now a Grade II* listed building.

Church of the Annunciation, Brighton The Church of the Annunciation was built in the 1860s on behalf of Rev. Arthur Wagner. It served a new area of poor housing in what is now the Hanover district. The church is a Grade II listed building.

Royal Crescent, Brighton Royal Crescent is a crescent-shaped terrace of houses on the seafront in Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. Built in the late 18th and early 19th century as a speculative development on the open cliffs east of Brighton by a wealthy merchant. English Heritage has listed the crescent at Grade II* for its architectural and historical importance.

Waste House Waste House is a building on the University of Brighton campus in the centre of Brighton on the south coast of England. It was built between 2012 and 2014 as a project involving hundreds of students and apprentices. The materials consist of a wide range of construction industry and household waste. It is the first public building in Europe to be built primarily of such products.

St Wilfrid’s Church, Brighton St Wilfrid’s Church is a former Anglican church in the Elm Grove area of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. It was declared redundant after less than 50 years as a place of worship, and was converted into sheltered housing with minimal alteration to the exterior.

Dorset Gardens Methodist Church Dorset Gardens Methodist Church is the third Methodist place of worship on the site. It replaced an older, larger church which was in turn a rebuilding of Brighton’s first Methodist church. Between them, the churches have played an important part in the history of Methodism in Brighton.

The Blind Tiger Club, Brighton The Blind Tiger Club was a mixed music, arts and community venue in Brighton, England, which opened in 2010. Time Out described the venue as “semi-legendary”, in its round-up of Brighton’s live music scene that year. Gigwise included the club in their list of the UK’s Greatest Lost Venues.

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