Inside ‘the cathedral of the back streets’ that is. St Michael and All Angels, a well kept Grade 1 listed mid Victorian church in Brighton. Quite a contrast with yesterday’s offering – this building is rated as in the top 100 churches in England in Simon Jenkin’s ‘England’s Thousand Best Churches’. About 30 years after it was built an extension was added alongside – so it is sort of two churches in one, which does make an interesting interior.
But the best bit – not obvious from the exterior – has to be the Pre-Raphaelite stained glass, claimed to be the finest in Sussex. Work by William Morris, Burne-Jones, Ford Madox-Brown, Rossetti, and Philip Webb, amongst others.
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