Description

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 Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-: 161N).

Listing NGR: TQ3123104176

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 5 December 2016.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660885

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