Chapel of Ease

Take a walk down one of Brighton's main shopping thoroughfares, North Street, and you can't help but notice an Anglican church right in the midst of the retail temples.

The Grade II listed Chapel Royal is an 18th-century chapel of ease (a church building other than the parish church built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently) built so the Prince Regent, son of King George III, didn't have to walk up the steep hill to Brighton's only Anglican church at the time, St Nicholas.

The original chapel, built 1793-95, was a stuccoed building in a broadly Classical style. The rebuilding of the exterior in 1882–1883 involved replacing the stucco with red brick giving the chapel it's striking. appearance.