Not obvious from the outside

I have been wandering around a few local churches again recently. So many of them tucked away in the back streets – often now disused or repurposed. You do get a sense of how central they were in the life of Victorian Brighton though.

Some are frankly depressing. This is St Andrews, in Waterloo street, once the parish church of Hove, serving the Brunswick Estate. I can just remember attending a service there.

You can’t even see inside it now – but the pungent smell of damp and decay reaches out to the street!

The photos at the top are a different story – more on those tomorrow.